[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12314]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       THE RED TAPE REDUCTION AND SMALL BUSINESS JOB CREATION ACT

  (Mr. ROKITA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROKITA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Red 
Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act. Time and again I 
hear from my constituents that they want to hire more workers, but they 
don't know what regulation is going to be coming down the pike next.
  Congress does not spend enough time fulfilling its constitutional 
responsibility of overseeing the executive branch. This is why, a 
little more than a year ago, in partnership with the Indiana Chamber of 
Commerce, we started Indiana's Red Tape Rollback Program to listen to 
Hoosiers, take their regulatory concerns to Washington, and get 
results.
  This, Mr. Speaker is our annual report. This is a page from that 
report, about 26 pages long.
  Regulatory burdens are equal opportunity. They don't affect one 
industry or type of people. Regulatory burdens hurt agriculture, 
transportation, and even our home health care workers, who fear they 
won't be able to care for their clients. They hurt everybody.
  I'm pleased that we have achieved a victory in 20 of our cases, and 
we will continue charging forward. I will continue to talk about the 
harm of overregulation and what it does to our economy. I will continue 
to advocate for a limited government, and I will continue to roll back 
the red tape.
  You can get the report at rokita.house.gov.

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