"How expensive?"
"One thing that amazes me is, as I traveled around Wisconsin, not only was this out-of-control spending a primary issue because people understood the fact that we are bankrupting this country, that thr..."
"We want you to be restrained. We want Congress to have a say in this."
"We have gone way overboard in allowing the President and the Executive Branch to have way too much power."
"We are spending over $1.5 trillion this year that we do not have, and certainly in business, if you want to control a department, you stop feeding the best."
"Can you address the EPA regulation on coal-fired generation plans? Because that is going to be huge."
"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."
"I am just amazed at the rules and regulations they are talking about and begging me to help them, 'Please stop this. It is going to put us out of business.' This is a very serious problem."