Malcolm Wallop: “I wish I had heard reason to oppose my amendment. I have heard lots of reasons to move on with it. I say to my friend…”

“I wish I had heard reason to oppose my amendment. I have heard lots of reasons to move on with it. I say to my friend from Ohio that we have been trying to get these amendments considered. We had hearings on this as far back as 1989. It does not give the people of America, who have to live with these things, a great deal of confidence to know that we are going to have more hearings. It has often been said, incorrectly, that the way to do nothing is to have a study. What we have is another study. The Senator from Ohio talks of unfunded mandates. For Heaven's sake, they are part and parcel of the problem, but not the direct effect of this amendment or the Senator from Wyoming and the Reg Flex Act. What we are talking about here is what the Vice President of the United States has endorsed. What we are talking about here is what the Office of Advocacy in the Small Business Administration has endorsed. What we are talking about here is the necessity for judicial review. If anybody thinks that there is the means by which you can add teeth to this regulatory flexibility, the Reg Flex Act, as it now exists, without giving judicial review, let them say. But there have been hearings in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993. It is time we acted on this. America is waiting for us to do something different, and we have not been willing to. They have been speaking to us about how the arrogance of the regulatory community is very, very simple.…”