04/22/2009
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"I have serious concerns about the real-world impact that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's standards... will have on vehicles on our economy."
"What I don't want to see is Government regulations and overly prescriptive mandates taking away consumer choice and putting a real hurt on the family budget."
"we ignore the consumer at our own peril both as a legislative body, sort of the regulators that were on the panel before, and you of course as the manufacturers and people who are supplying consumers ..."
"I have introduced H.R. 4504, the Energy Efficiency Free Market Act, to repeal the Department of Energy's authority to mandate efficiency standards for all consumer products."