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George Pataki Addresses Questions from Soybean Association on EPA Regulations

42 views · Published 24 September 2015 · 2:07 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: RFD-TV · 2015 · Entertainment

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Q: "Morey Hill:  Good afternoon, Governor. My name is Morey Hill.  I’m a fourth-generation farmer from right here in central Iowa. Kind of piggybacking on your last question there about the EPA. You know, out here, we’re drowning in regulations, and you touched on that with the EPA and the Water Rule. How would you work to assure that regulations that which are enacted work in such a way that they help farmers and not hurt us?"

A: George Pataki:  "Yeah. That is an absolutely critical question. And, it’s a question that I faced when I was Governor because we were dead last in America in creating jobs. And by the way, not only did I win as a conservative Republican in a state with three million more Democrats, 1 in 11 of every man, woman, and child in the state of New York was on welfare, not Medicaid, welfare when I took office. And, a lot of it was the tax burden; the other part was the regulatory burden. And, that’s something where a lot of people missed the fact that it’s not just taxes, it’s the job-killing regulations. So, let me tell you what I did. I created an office of regulatory reform so that if an agency like the environmental agency wanted to put in place a regulation, they couldn’t do it on their own. They had to go to my office and explain why they were doing it, what the cost of it was, and what the benefit was, and if we didn’t like it we didn’t let them do it. So, we stopped all these regulations where an agency just was dealing with the interest groups and not dealing with the public interest. And, the other thing that authority had was the power to go back and review existing regulations, regulations that had already been in place, and repeal them or modify them if they’re doing things like killing jobs and making an industry like the soybean industry suffer or go out of business. And they, by the time I left, had repealed or modified almost 4,000 different regulations that had been enacted before that were having a negative impact on New York’s economy. That’s exactly what I’d do in Washington. Shrink the size of the government dramatically, lower the tax burden, and go through those regulations and not just block new regulations that are going to hurt American business people and hurt jobs, but repeal and change many of those already in existence."

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