[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 6 (Tuesday, February 1, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 1, 1994]
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URGING DEFEAT OF THE RULE ON DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT

  (Mr. MICA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MICA. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow the House of Representatives will 
have the opportunity to consider the most important regulatory reform 
issue facing the 103d Congress. As we debate the elevation of EPA to a 
Cabinet level status, Congress has an opportunity to make some sense of 
the tidal wave of regulations that are bankrupting our State and local 
governments and putting commerce, industry, and agriculture out of 
business.
  Tomorrow we will only have one opportunity to allow risk assessment 
to be debated by the House. We must defeat the rule which has banned 
our consideration of this last chance for regulatory reform. We must 
defeat the rule if we want the voices of our Governors, mayors, and 
local elected officials to be heard.
  We must defeat the rule if we want American businesses, factories, 
and farms to be able to compete in domestic and international markets.
  I urge my colleagues to give risk assessment a chance. Defeat the 
rule and say ``no'' to unfunded Federal mandates. This may be our last 
chance in this decade.

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