[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 105 (Thursday, June 15, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2949]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         BLIZZARD OF REGULATION

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, there has been a lot of discussion going 
on this week about regulation. As we go home for this 3-day weekend, I 
encourage my colleagues, as they get around their district, whether 
they run into people who are in farming, in manufacturing, in banking--
particularly in the nursing home field--to ask those folks about the 
difference between regulatory rules that they live under today and 30 
years ago. How many more man-hours are they spending every week filling 
out government forms that does nothing to make their bank or farm or 
manufacturing facility run better.
  I think you will find them saying that they never would have gone 
into business in the first place if they knew about this blizzard of 
regulation, that they could not have swallowed it all at once but had 
to take a drip, drip, drip over 20 years.
  In any event, I encourage my colleagues to get out to a different 
group that they normally don't deal with, the businessmen and -women--
the farmer, manufacturer, nursing home, banker--and they will find out 
that our country is unquestionably poor because of the sea of people we 
have filling out paperwork every week.

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