[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 162 (Wednesday, October 26, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H7082]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         BURDENSOME REGULATIONS

  (Mrs. LUMMIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. LUMMIS. Mr. Speaker, as I traveled my district of Wyoming and 
visited another district, Nevada, over the last work period, I heard 
repeatedly from small business people about the burdensome regulations 
that have been placed on their businesses and ability to hire people 
and put people back to work by the current administration here in 
Washington.
  So when I returned to Washington, I asked for a copy of all of the 
Federal Registers. Those are all the new regulations that have been 
printed just in this year alone and implemented by this administration. 
I now have in my office boxes of regulations that are taller than I am, 
and we're not even finished with this year. And going back to the year 
before and the year before, those regulations have been growing at 
exponential paces.
  If we're going to put Americans back to work, Mr. Speaker, we need to 
make sure that these rules that are taller than I am, thousands of 
pages, tens of thousands of pages, are repealed.

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