Political Quotes

“Let me just expand on this point regarding President Obama. This administration has approved fewer regulations than the predecessor, George W. Bush, at this same point in their tenures. Furthermore, Bloomberg finds that the average annual cost of regulations under President Obama at about $7 billion to $10 billion is close to the average around the costs from 1981 to 2008. This GOP bill kills rulemaking in favor of special interests. Sixty new analytical steps, can you imagine? You will be bogged down spending money and using government time and using the taxpayers' dollars to keep from protecting them; to keep from protecting this innocent child; to keep from protecting children with asthma; to keep from protecting people who need to have clean water; to keep from protecting those who need to have, if you will, a food safety requirement that keeps them from being impacted by E. coli. How ``unsensible,'' if I can use a word in quotes, is that? As the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards says, which includes Consumer Federation of America, this bill will make it virtually impossible for Federal agencies to ensure that American families are protected from tainted food, unsafe drugs, predatory financial schemes, dirty air and water, and dangerous workplaces. Give us a break. Let us follow in the footsteps of President Bush, President Reagan, and our predecessor President Bush and realize that this regulatory scheme is broken.…”