During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader John Thune (R-SD) spoke about Republican bills aimed at removing 'burdensome' regulations from the Biden administration.
Category
đź—ž
NewsTranscript
00:00Mr. President, I ask consent that the quorum call be suspended.
00:03Without objection.
00:04Mr. President, as I sat on the floor yesterday when I meet with South Dakota business owners,
00:08I often tell them to let them know how can we help, even if that means getting out of the way.
00:17Because that's often what the government needs to do, get out of the way.
00:22It's a foreign concept to the government knows best crowd.
00:26But what my Democrat colleagues frequently fail to realize is that while government can sometimes be a help,
00:31it can often be a hindrance.
00:33Especially under Democrat administrations, which tend to load down Americans and American businesses
00:38with burdensome regulations for extremely, I should say, dubious gains.
00:44The Biden administration certainly did that.
00:47And one of our priorities this Congress has been taking advantage of the Congressional Review Act
00:51to repeal burdensome Biden administration regulations.
00:54We've passed ten CRA resolutions so far, and this week we plan to add four more to that total.
01:03We will kick things off with Senator Tim Scott's resolution on the Biden administration's rubber tire manufacturing rule,
01:10an excellent example of a burdensome and unnecessary regulation.
01:15The Biden EPA's rubber tire rule set new emission standards for tire manufacturers.
01:21Why?
01:22Well, that's a good question.
01:24Tire manufacturers are already subject to strict emissions rules.
01:29And the Biden EPA, that's right, the Biden EPA, found the rule was not necessary to protect public health or the environment.
01:40And as for the rule's effect on emissions, while it will reduce the emission of certain air pollutants,
01:46it will increase emissions of carbon dioxide and methane.
01:52And then there's the cost.
01:54The Biden EPA estimated that this rule would cost tire manufacturers $13.3 million per year.
02:01And there's reason to believe that that number could go much higher.
02:05So we have costly new standards for tire manufacturers justified by no public health benefit,
02:11including, as I said, by the Biden administration,
02:14and estimated to produce extremely dubious, if any, environmental gains.
02:20You might say we have the poster child for a burdensome and unnecessary government regulation.
02:27And we're going to repeal it this week.
02:30We're also going to take up Senator Curtis and Senator Lee's resolution to overturn a Biden administration regulation
02:35limiting access to public lands in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area for those with off-road vehicles.
02:41Senator Curtis has noted that he hopes this measure will be a step toward ensuring that public lands remain accessible to Americans,
02:47instead of being closed off by Washington bureaucrats.
02:52A third CRA measure that we'll take up this week is Senator Cruz's resolution
02:56to block an unlawful Biden-era Federal Communications Commission regulation
03:01that allows a federal program to subsidize unregulated, off-campus Wi-Fi hotspots for school children.
03:09The problems with this regulation are myriad.
03:14It is, as I said, unlawful.
03:17It violates the Communications Act,
03:19which clearly limits the use of the funds in question to classrooms and libraries.
03:25And it effectively extends a program that Congress chose not to renew.
03:30Then there is the fact that this rule endangers children by giving them unsupervised access
03:35to a whole host of potentially dangerous or unhealthy content.
03:40Add to that the fact that it creates the potential for duplication of government efforts to deploy broadband.
03:46And you have a whole host of reasons to repeal this Biden regulation.
03:51Finally, Mr. President, this week we intend to take up Senator Kennedy's CRA resolution
03:56to repeal a Biden administration rule adding unnecessary red tape to bank mergers.
04:01This rule would delay approval of bank mergers that increase competition,
04:06potentially restricting choice in banks for consumers.
04:12I am grateful to all of the senators I've mentioned for their efforts to lift burdensome Biden-era regulations
04:19and for all those who sponsored earlier CRA measures.
04:27And Senate Republicans will continue to work to lift unnecessary government burdens
04:32and get government out of the way of American families and American businesses.
04:37Mr. President, I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum.
04:41Mayor Imran Carter. Close and I yield the floor and I yield the floor.
04:44Mayor Miller.
04:49Mayor Imran Carter.
04:58Mayor Imran Carter.
05:04Mayor Imran Carter.
05:07Mayor Imran Carter.
05:08Mayor Imran Carter.
05:10Email Emran in Minor.