Quotes About Legislation

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

We must advance regulatory reforms.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.

When you declare a 'war on coal' from a regulatory perspective, the question has to be asked: where's that in the statute? Where did Congress empower the EPA to declare a war on coal?

The administration will look at Glass-Steagall and what I referred to as the 21st-century Glass-Steagall as part of regulatory reform.

If we can't get where we need to go to protect people through our regulatory channels, through our legislative process, then unfortunately what we have left is our legal process.

Streamlining New Hampshire's regulatory framework is a key priority of my administration.

If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.

I'm a Democrat for the reinforcement of the Patriot Act. It's not strong enough.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

Before the Affordable Care Act, one in five bankruptcies in this state was health care related.

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

It is often quite impossible to gauge the mood of the Chamber in advance, particularly on big occasions. One moment, it is relaxed and good-humoured; at the next, it can be angry and querulous, and the House in this mood can be a formidable arena.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.

If you're holding a grudge against somebody over the battle you just went through, you might be working with them on the next bill.

I don't know that my colleagues in Congress really care about what happens here in El Paso and in Juarez. They care what happens in their home district.

We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.