[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 28 (Tuesday, March 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, this afternoon the Republican leadership is 
brining up the Small Business Relief and Regulatory Accountability Act. 
This is nothing more than the Contract With America repackaged.
  It is an effort to bog down Federal agencies, particularly those 
involved with the environment such as the EPA, so that they cannot get 
the job done. From the beginning of this session last year, the 
Republicans made a point that they were going to push through 
regulatory reform. But this regulatory reform is nothing more than but 
an effort to burden departments and agencies that protect our public 
health and safety with duplicative and unnecessary paperwork and 
bureaucracy.
  It is a shame that the Republican leadership is going to try again to 
raise this issue and do what is necessary, what they think they can do 
to break down environmental protection and make it impossible for the 
EPA and other agencies that protect our environment and protect our 
public health from doing their job. But we will have to fight it again 
today and make the point that this is not the way that Congress should 
be run.

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