In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.
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But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.
Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.
My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.
I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
Creating a new air traffic control regulator outside of the FAA would be a risky and expensive undertaking, the consequences and costs of which would be borne by American taxpayers and the traveling public.
We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.
They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.