[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: February 2, 1994]
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                        PASS THE MICA AMENDMENT

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues, Government regulations are 
the No. 1 killer of small business.
  What are Government regulations? They are nothing more than unfunded 
mandates on small businesses around America, on local governments, 
State governments, even local schools get unfunded mandates from here 
in Washington. An example would be the proposed worker protection 
standards, well meaning but burdensome regulations designed to protect 
workers from the use of pesticides.
  These regulations proposed by the EPA would be impossible for States 
to enforce, and, yes, there is no money for the States to go out and 
enforce these proposed regulations. Another unfunded mandate.
  There is no money for farmers or farm organizations to go out and 
protect these workers with their proposed regulations. Nobody is going 
to pay those costs.
  Another unfunded mandate.
  The fact is we do not have to allow the EPA to continue this. If we 
defeat the rule today and we can consider the Mica amendment, we can 
force the EPA to do risk-benefit analysis, force the EPA to do cost-
benefit analysis, and then we will have an EPA that is worthy to be 
called the Environmental Protection Agency.

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