Political Quotes

“My simple amendment would clarify the congressional procedure for acting on the President's written congressional waiver request as provided for in the bill. Based on their remarks today, it appears my friends on the other side of the aisle view the availability of congressional waivers as sufficient to ensure commonsense, popular safeguards such as rules benefiting veterans with catastrophic injuries, assisting students with loan debt, or providing families with peace of mind that the peanut butter their children eat will not poison them. {time} 1940 So they are not blocked by this bill's arbitrary across-the-board moratorium action on significant rulemaking actions because there is a waiver provision. Yet for all of the emphasis on the importance of these congressional waivers, this bill, H.R. 4078, only provides vague, unclear guidance concerning how such actions would proceed on the President's waiver requests. H.R. 4078 only specifies that Congress shall give each submission by the President ``expeditious consideration'' and take ``appropriate legislative action'' without defining these terms in statute.…”