Political Quotes

“as we continue this historic effort in Congress to repeal harmful regulations, I rise today in support of H.J. Res. 66. Due to the aggressive regulatory posture taken by the Obama administration in its final months, Congress has had to spend a significant portion of time repealing regulations under the Congressional Review Act, and our level of success has been unprecedented. Before 2017, only one CRA resolution had ever been successfully passed by Congress and signed by the President. If passed and signed, H.J. Res. 66 would be the 14th CRA resolution enacted this year. That is remarkable. It is unfortunate that we are in this situation, no doubt, but our success in rolling back harmful regulations is a positive step, in my view and in the view of so many others. There is a growing consensus here in Washington and throughout our country that the U.S. economy--our workers, businesses, and job creators--are horribly overregulated. Regulations promulgated by the executive branch take hundreds of billions of dollars out of our economy. The resolution before us will repeal a regulation that President Obama apparently personally ordered Labor Secretary Tom Perez to draft as a gift to certain blue States.…”