Political Quotes

“We are opposed to the bill because we have received letters and concerns from a cross section of Americans, a cross section of organizations, who recognize that this is not really a codification of an executive order, but this is overreach on the part of the majority of Congress at this time. They feel that they are able to do it, and so they are going to ram this through. H.R. 1009 would add another layer of bureaucracy to an already slow rulemaking process. The Consumer Federation of America says: The bill creates a regulatory working group to provide input to agencies about how to improve their regulatory process, including an evaluation of risk assessment techniques. It appears like this is what we are going to be doing throughout Oversight and Government Reform, is creating new task forces and new groups to review rulemaking and review regulations at the cost of the taxpayer. H.R. 1009 would jeopardize the independence of agencies like the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, as well as other independent agencies because it will give the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OIRA, the ability to review significant rules which are outside of their scope now. That is why these agencies are called independent, because Congress wanted them to be independent.…”