At this time it is my distinct pleasure to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Gowdy), a member of the Judiciary Committee and the chief sponsor of the legislation.

I will be brief and just say for the reasons already cited, this is a very harmful amendment. It would gut the bill. For that reason, I oppose it and urge my colleagues to oppose it. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR…

May I inquire how much time is remaining on each side? The CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 11 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Michigan has 11\1/2\ minutes remaining.

We have only one closing speaker remaining, so if the gentleman is prepared to close, we will close right after.

May I inquire how much time each side has remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from New York has 30 seconds remaining.

Reclaiming my time, the amendment is clear that it would prohibit the language of the bill from bringing a lawsuit when the President fails to enforce the civil rights laws. Mr. Chairman, I oppose the amendment, and I yield back the…

Article II, section 3 of the United States Constitution declares that the President ``shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'' However, President Obama has failed on many occasions to enforce acts of Congress that he…

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a pleasure to be here, a pleasure to welcome this great panel of witnesses.

I oppose this amendment, as it would allow the President to rewrite the civil rights laws on his own without any accountability in court. The amendment, if adopted, would literally provide that nothing in the bill shall affect any action…

Mr. Nadler's amendment purports to clarify that nothing in this legislation limits or otherwise affects prosecutorial discretion. If this amendment is adopted, it will only serve to cause confusion regarding the scope of the President's…

I oppose this amendment, as it would gut the bill. Read the text of the amendment. The amendment would explicitly prohibit the bill from affecting the executive branch's compliance with judicial decisions interpreting the Constitution or…

I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler). The question was taken; and the Chair announced that…

5\1/2\ years after the financial crisis struck in 2008, America remains in a jobs recession. Millions of Americans would call it a jobs depression. The RAPID Act responds to America's urgent need for new jobs with critical help. According…

The amendment is unnecessary and could needlessly block important energy construction projects from breaking ground. The March 2011 ``Project No Project'' study identified 351 energy projects, including nuclear projects, that, if approved…

The RAPID Act will create jobs by ensuring that the Federal environmental review and permitting process works like it should. The RAPID Act is drafted to make agencies operate efficiently and transparently; it does not prevent citizens…

I thank the gentleman, and I rise in strong support of the gentleman's amendment. Mr. Chair, I support the amendment. The RAPID Act includes important reforms to assure that agencies wrap up their environmental reviews for construction…

The amendment seeks to shield the Department of Homeland Security, a department in need of good government reform, from all of the government rulemaking reforms in this bill. We should not do that. The bill does not threaten needed…

First, let me be very clear to my good friend from California. I share his concern about the kinds of explosions that he is concerned about and want to see appropriate ways to deal with these problems through the regulatory process. It is…

I thank the gentlewoman. I am not persuaded that the Department of Homeland Security, especially with a provision that provides for emergency relief from any of the provisions of the bill, cannot be greatly benefited, and all those who…

The fact that this is only an estimate means that no one knows exactly how many provisions in the federal Code subject American citizens to criminal sanctions.

This sort of 'legislation by accumulation,' or by anecdote, is undoubtedly contrary to Congressional intent, not to mention the fair administration of justice.

I want to thank Congressmen Holding, Collins, and Subcommittee Chairman Bachus for their hard work on this bill as well as committee staff on both sides of the aisle. Four bills combined into one and still under 100 pages will do much to…

When inspectors general find agency waste, fraud, and abuse and recommend that new regulations be issued or old regulations be modified, the natural instinct of the guilty agency is to try to evade the recommended corrections to its bad…

In response to the gentleman from California, let me say that, with regard to the efforts that need to be undertaken when a regulatory process is already underway, is accommodated for in the bill in the new section 553(g), subsection 2(A)…

I would reiterate that the right way to address the concern about the impact of regulations on jobs is to join me in supporting the Rothfus-Barr amendment that would make sure that agencies do a much better job identifying adverse job…