On the recordNovember 17, 2016
On election day, the American people delivered a resounding message to Washington: do not continue the Obama administration's policies; stop the regulatory Big Government onslaught that has been killing our jobs, strangling recovery, and suffocating our futures. Passage of this bill is the way to say immediately: We have heard you loud and clear. The American people have said ``no'' to the continuance of the Obama administration's policies. This bill guarantees that Congress can prevent any and all last-minute defiance of the people's will by midnight regulations that stubbornly seek to entrench the last pieces of the administration's partisan agenda. Those regulations come from a host of agencies. They include everything from overtime rules to greenhouse gas emission standards for heavy-duty engines and vehicles and scores of other regulations in between, and they threaten to impose on our economy over $100 billion in new annual costs. It is not Obama administration bureaucrats who should tell the people what they must do in these areas, rushing costly political preferences out the door before the stroke of midnight. It is the incoming administration, working with Congress, that should determine the rules to govern the future and the regulatory rollbacks that will let freedom ring and Americans prosper. I urge my colleagues to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.
