[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 28, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1441]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           FEDERAL REGULATION

  (Mr. MULLIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MULLIN. Madam Speaker, I would like to call attention to recent 
remarks made by Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. 
Regarding document requests submitted by the Natural Resources 
Committee, the Secretary gave excuses as to why it was inconvenient for 
her agency to comply with these requests and allow Congress to fulfill 
its duty in providing oversight to Federal agencies.
  I serve on the Natural Resources Committee, and the document requests 
submitted concerned Federal regulations burdening this Nation. The 
Secretary noted that going through these documents was a waste of time 
and money for her agency.
  Yet Congress is charged with keeping an agency like the Department of 
the Interior accountable because we are all, in turn, held accountable 
to the American taxpayer. We want answers to these regulation 
questions.
  A battle is being waged in our country between an increasingly 
overbearing government and an increasingly burdened country of 
entrepreneurs. The struggle between regulation and innovation has tied 
the hands of many job creators.
  The Federal Government must stop putting people out of business 
through regulation and help get our country back to work.

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