Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Joint Resolution 37, which annuls a poorly-written regulation put in place by the Obama administration. We need to clean up the regulations that the previous administration imposed upon American business. We need to reform them, and ensure that they serve a useful purpose. This is especially important for the Department of Defense and NASA. The regulation in question does not allow contractors to exercise their right of due process. Rather than letting our legal system provide justice, American companies could be blacklisted by contracting agencies if ``preliminary determinations'' had been made against them. This is not how our justice system works. Perhaps that is why this regulation was halted by a nationwide injunction. We should protect American workers. The regulation we strike today was poorly crafted, and it would ultimately do America's workforce more harm than good. As Chairman of the Science Committee, I know that such a regulation would impede NASA from carrying out its mission of exploration and place an unnecessary cost on taxpayers by diminishing competition. NASA should not be hampered by such unnecessary regulations and needs to focus its resources on the challenges of outer space exploration. The Federal procurement process cannot afford to be bogged down with defective regulations. Congress must clean up how our government does business to ensure that it is just and efficient.…”