On the recordFebruary 28, 2017
You know what? We have got over 1 million pages of regulations. We have got so many laws nobody could possibly know them. I would venture to say there are very few people today who can't go a day without violating some law or some regulation. It has gotten too complex. Nobody wants a dirty environment. Nobody wants dirty water, but we need a reasonable amount of regulation that we can understand, that we can follow, and that will protect America and create jobs. The SCRUB Act creates a commission that comes back to Congress with recommendations of what to get rid of. You know what? I would like to do it all here in Congress, too, but we sure face a lot of obstruction in getting things done here. It doesn't move fast here. Let's get a commission to do the basic work. Let's bring it back to Congress, and let us decide and let us get rid of regulations. Let's make the agencies pick and choose which regulations that they think are important, and they will do it. This is commonsense legislation to get the regulatory state under control, and I urge my colleagues to support it.
