Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman's passion for this issue. All we are asking for, in a bipartisan way--and I sound like a broken record up here--is to review these regulations, go back over an indefinite amount of time to look way back, back, and go look at what these rules and regulations that have been put out there. Remember, we are supposed to be implementing it by law. There are times when regulations and rules--certainly in emergency situations, it has to be dealt with. But they can go back and look at these. It is not going to slow down our dealing with an emergency. What we are going to do, and I think we are going to find, is that it is actually going to clean up the process in the system. It is like--I am trying to think of a good example of this--but they keep throwing things into the garage, and there is so much clutter you can't even get in the garage. And I just think they are living on a different planet if we think that all these regulations are perfect; nothing needs to be cleared out; we don't want to take any time; we want just the administration to do it; we don't want the other party to be involved. Republicans are suggesting to do this in a bipartisan way. I think that is reasonable. I think that is what the American people want. But Democrats don't want us to do that. They don't want a bipartisan group of people looking at rules and regulations in the executive branch. I don't think that is fair. I don't think that is balanced.…”