[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 27, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H1126]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              THE NEW ADMINISTRATION IS GOOD FOR EVERYONE

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank the current 
administration for its willingness, its simple willingness, to consider 
the economic consequences of previous executive regulations.
  The Clinton administration promulgated new and somewhat draconian 
mining regulations in spite of the unforeseen economic hardships, 
especially in Nevada, that they would create, and in spite of the 
recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences study which stated 
that new Federal mining regulations were not necessary. Yet the 
previous administration went ahead, thinking it knew better than anyone 
else.
  Well, finally, Nevadans and, may I say, all Americans can have faith 
that their Federal Government will not rush headlong into issuing new 
rules without listening to the public and to the experts.
  It is nice to see the American people will once again have a say in 
their democracy, the way our Founding Fathers had envisioned it; the 
proper function of our Federal Government.

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