Political Quotes

“I would like to comment. Section 8 of this Jobs Through Growth Act is the Government Litigation Savings Act. This was something introduced in the House by Cynthia Lummis, a Member of Congress from Wyoming, and myself in the Senate. This legislation will return the Equal Access to Justice Act--or what I refer to as EAJA--back to its original purpose. The small business entity or individual citizen should not have their individual liberties overrun by Washington. EAJA was meant to provide people with limited financial resources--veterans, Social Security claimants, small business owners--the ability to defend themselves against harmful government actions. That is how it was intended to be used. It allows individuals to sue the Federal Government, to recover part of their attorneys' fees and the costs. This was a well-intended law, but it has been exploited--exploited by large environmental groups with large legal departments--and it is being used now as a profit center for these large organizations through litigation against our government, and they are all getting paid to do it. The total amount that has been paid is unknown, and the reason it is unknown is that since 1995 something called the Paperwork Reduction Act defunded all the reporting requirements. There is an attorney in Wyoming, Karen Budd-Falen, who has conducted research to see how much money a lot of these environmental groups have made.…”