Political Quotes

“Here is the problem. The Federal bureaucracy continues to grow and expand to the point where we have millions of people who wake up every day. A lot of them are regulators. They can't justify their existence unless they regulate something. There is no incentive to get rid of those regulations. There is every incentive to add regulations because that is what they get paid to do. We want to just have a bipartisan group of people who can go and weed out all of this unnecessary underbrush, as I keep calling it, to streamline the system. It should be done by every agency. It is going to take time to go through it. I hope we are saying that we recognize that there is this problem because we can keep coming up with examples and going through and saying, ``Hey, we will pass''--do you know how expensive it is to introduce and pass a piece of legislation and try to get it over to the Senate? We are trying to create a commission in a bipartisan way to have people dive in and look at these regulations. That is what we are asking for. That is why I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment and a ``yes'' vote on the underlying bill introduced by Mr. Jason Smith. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.”