[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 35 (Friday, February 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2180]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     THE NEED FOR REGULATION REFORM

  (Mr. GUTKNECHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTKNECHT. Mr. Speaker, Federal regulations are strangling the 
life out of businesses in this country. This year alone, $600 billion 
in taxpayer funds will be spent on regulations. This year alone, the 
Clinton administration is pursuing 4,300 new regulations. The American 
people do not want their tax dollars to pay for antiquated and often 
conflicting regulations for businesses. They want a smaller, more 
efficient Government, one which will work for them and not against 
them.
  If businesses are to continue creating jobs, the current bureaucratic 
maze of redtape and regulation must be brought under control. Companies 
are being bled dry by overbearing regulations and they are forced to 
cut jobs in order to pay for them, and because many of the regulations 
clash with each other, they are faced with a dilemma. Do they break one 
law to follow another? This is an impossible choice that hard-working 
Americans should not have to make.
  Mr. Speaker, we must bring reason into the regulation process. It is 
just plain common sense. We need regulation reform and we need it 
today.

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