[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: February 2, 1994]
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                         DEFEAT EPA STATUS BILL

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                            HON. RON PACKARD

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 2, 1994

  Mr. PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge my colleagues to defeat the 
rule on the EPA Cabinet level status bill.
  I started my service in government at the local level. Government at 
the State and local level is different from the Federal Government. 
When I was mayor of Carlsbad, we did not have deficit spending. I know 
first hand about meeting the bottom line.
  Besides expanding the already huge Federal bureaucracy, this bill 
will impose an onerous burden on State and local government already 
straining to meet unfunded Federal mandates.
  In addition the rule precludes amendments including one which seeks 
to quantify the burden of regulations according to cost/benefit 
analysis or risk assessment. Without these types of checks and 
balances, the EPA bill will unleash a bureaucratic nightmare on the 
taxpayers, cities, counties and States of our country.
  Again, I urge my colleagues to defeat this rule so we can attach 
reasonable fiscal checks and balances like cost benefit and risk 
assessments.

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