[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14397-14398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             OVERREGULATION

  (Mr. LONG asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LONG. Mr. Speaker, over the last few decades, the Federal 
Government has regulated activities of the American people in 
increasingly minute detail. It was the Founders' desire to protect our 
individual liberty by having a government, which was energetic in its 
ability to perform the duties entrusted in it but limited in its scope, 
a concept incompatible with the current degree of overregulation.
  The result is diminished job opportunities and higher costs for the 
average American. When jobs are lost, when new businesses never open, 
it is the

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low-skilled, the young, new workers and those already suffering from 
chronic unemployment who are harmed the most.
  The story of America is the story of someone starting out with 
nothing and achieving the American Dream. The secret to our success has 
always been our free and dynamic society that enables everyone to 
fulfill their unique human potential. It is time for Congress to decide 
whether it values paperwork or people. Don't regulate the American 
Dream out of existence.

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