Political Quotes

“On the floor of this House in 2011, the President of the United States promised the American people to reduce barriers to growth and investment: ``When we find rules that put an unnecessary burden on businesses, we will fix them.'' Mr. Speaker, those were just the President's words. His actions have been starkly different. Throughout the entire 6-plus years of the President's administration, a flood of new major regulations has been burying America's job creators and households at record levels. To make matters worse, when Congress declines to legislate the President's misguided policies for him, he takes his pen and his cell phone, and he increasingly resorts to unilateral regulatory actions to legislate by executive fiat. The REINS Act, in one fell swoop, puts a stop to that and ensures that Congress, the body which the Constitution assigns the power to legislate, will possess an additional check on the most significant legislative decisions imposed on the American people through regulation. The motion to recommit seeks only to distract from the urgent needs to reform our regulatory system and reduce unnecessary burdens on the public. I think Americans are tired of the other party telling them that their bureaucrats know better than their own elected officials. I urge my colleagues to support this bill, reject this motion to recommit, and show America that Congress can act for the good of American job creators and Americans who desperately want and need jobs.…”