[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 34 (Thursday, February 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2072]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MORE ON THE REGULATORY TRANSITION ACT

  (Mr. NEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk today about the Regulatory 
Transition Act. This is a critical act for us and it is only a starting 
point, because over the past years we might as well clear out the floor 
of this Congress and let unelected bureaucrats come sit, take our 
places. They have been running the Government, lock, stock, and barrel. 
They have made laws. And the United States EPA, Mr. Speaker, might as 
well have come into the Ohio Valley and Youngstown, OH and Cleveland, 
OH and taken the food off the tables of people. They have over extended 
their arm.
  It is time to make normal, commonsense, rational ideas to protect 
people but not to have the mismatch that we have had that has strangled 
the ability of blue-collar working people to literally just survive in 
the Ohio Valley and industrial parts of the State of Ohio.
  So we want to protect people, but we have now the opportunity to 
correct the faults that have occurred of an overstretched bureaucratic 
arm.




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