05/20/2013
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"To pick up on Senator Paul's comment that this is a bipartisan problem, I realize this is not a perfect surrogate for the size of the Federal bureaucracy, but at the end of President Franklin Roosevel..."
"We want to restrain the regulatory branch."
"big regulations--maybe we cannot oversee every regulation, but big regulations, regulations that cost the economy over $100 million, major rules, should not be written by unelected bureaucrats."
"this legislation would fix this problem. It would make us more meaningful. It would bring back congressional authority."