Political Quotes

“I thank my dear friend, the distinguished ranking member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cummings). I must say, the previous speaker representing the majority on the Judiciary Committee reminded me of the meaning of the word chutzpah. To complain about job growth when your party hands a new, Democratic President the deepest and worst recession since the Great Depression; when you leave the country with 10.2 percent unemployment, and that President and these Democrats in this Congress reversed all that. Unemployment is less than half of that, 5 percent. We have had 64 consecutive months of positive--net positive--private-sector job growth, the longest stretch in American history. And you want to say it could have been better if we hadn't had so much regulation? What an extraordinary narrative--and a false one and a dangerous one. The name of this bill is the SCRUB Act. The best thing we can do with this bill is to scrub it from the floor of the House of Representatives. It is dangerous because it will lift protections on public health and public safety. You don't like regulation. Some regulation is burdensome, and certainly we ought to have regular reviews to make sure we reduce or eliminate those. We already do. Agencies are already required to do so under the executive orders signed by this President. In fact, those efforts are yielding results.…”