Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. It has been years since Federal officials declared that the Great Recession had ended and recovery had begun. It has been years since the Obama administration took office, promising to deliver prosperity and security once more to our Nation. We are now approaching American voters' next choice of leadership for the United States. The Obama administration seeks to assure us that times are better and times are safer. Workers, small-business owners, and Main Street families across our Nation know better. America is still struggling to create enough new jobs and economic growth to produce the prosperity and security Americans need and deserve. Unless Washington relents from adding unnecessarily to the nearly $2 trillion in annual costs that Federal regulation imposes on our economy, America's job creators and innovators will not be able to create the jobs and growth needed to produce a true new morning in America. Today's bill contains three measures sure to help remedy this situation. First, the bill offers strong reforms to attack a problem that lies behind many of the costliest new regulations Washington issues each year. That is the problem of sue and settle regulation. Time and again, new, high-cost regulations are issued under consent decrees and settlement agreements that force Federal agencies to issue new rules. These decrees and settlements stem from deals between regulatory agencies and pro-regulatory plaintiffs.…”