[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 42 (Thursday, March 21, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H1803-H1804]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      END GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, recently the government came out with a 
106-page regulatory and safety reform plan for ceiling fans. I did not 
know ceiling fans were such a hazard to America's health, but 
apparently they are.
  So what's going to happen? That $40 ceiling fan that you've been 
buying and putting on your back porch will now go to $400 because we 
have to keep these

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busybody bureaucrats employed. We have to keep them happy because of 
these hazardous fans.
  Now, my friend, Joe ``Cut Spending'' McCutchen was recently talking 
to me about the big problem that is too much government, too much 
spending and interference in our lives. That's why today I supported 
the Ryan budget and yesterday the Republican Study Committee budget.
  These budgets call for tax reform, for health care reform, for less 
spending and regulatory reform of job-killing regulations like the new 
106-page document on ceiling fans.
  Let's hope the Senate passes a tough budget. But if they do not, with 
or without that, let's continue to work on spending cuts, reducing the 
size of government and ending government interference in our lives.

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