mr. arrington. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. arrington: madam chair, the cumulative costs of regulations in our country is now at the tune of $2 trillion and it cost us $60 billion just to enforce those regulations every year. with all due respect, that's not window dressing. when you take a look at those numbers, it's clear to see that the bureaucratic state of our federal government is threatening our job creators and killing our economy. today we have an opportunity to reverse course on the stifling regulations flowing from washington by passing h.r. 998, the scrub act, as amended here by my colleague, congresswoman martha mcsally. the scrub act will establish a commission to review existing federal regulations and identify for congress which of those plays -- places unnecessary costs on our economy. the amendment offered by my colleague from arizona will take the scrub act a step further by requiring this commission to consider for removal all regulations dating back to 1996 that did not comply with the law that states that t

mr. arrington is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. dr. hall, i appreciate your time and your service. and i'm happy to be on this bipartisan house budget committee. i say that a little tongue in cheek, based on some of the comments that are made. the american people are tired of partisan bickering and tit for tat. they want us to do like they do, in their businesses and in their homes and daily lives and roll up our sleeves and go to work and solve this problem. the other thing they're tired of is congress playing by a different set of rules. and one of the rules that they have to play by and live by is that they have to live within our means. and so we have got to work together to solve this. i'm excited to be on this committee, because i think it is the greatest threat to the future of our country. my commitment isn't to the republican party. or to the leadership, my commitment is to my three children that they will have a safe, strong and free america to live in. that they will, in fact, have a future to grow up in the shining city on

mr. conner recognized for five minutes. >> i appreciate, congressman arrington, we may not agree on much, but -- i appreciate for following him. dr. hall, thank you for your service, not this role treasury, department and white house, i look forward to hearing your expertise. i respect the district with p apple, google -- 4.5 jobs for every one job created. pastor and will tell you in our district not everyone who work aztecs w as teches -- in eastern kentucky, there was this model where 40 jobs recently created folks coal minors kids being training on apple phone, four month class, all have jobs, it was funded by the tech initiative that the administration worked on with congress and the economic center. my question for you, is how do we get tech jobs across the country. what are your thoughts on what this congress needs to do to make that possible? >> it's a little hard for me to speak too specifically to that. i don't want to make specific recommendation. that's not what cbo does. in general terms, the long-run problems we talk a little about the labor force participation, getting labo

mr. harold rhode right here. >> simply background, i worked at the pentagon n irenic cultur. i went to the early stage of arrington revolution and iran studying basic iranian culture. and my question, since i don't know anything about nuclear things, to all of you, is that is there really an agreement -- i know i'll talk about this agreement between iran and come it is really iran and obama here. and here's the reason i say that. first of all the agreement in english that whatever has been publicized is about a third of what is written in persian. the english version is active. this will be done, this person or this country was responsible for that and all that. that persian version is all passive voice. it will be done. it should be noted that. it isn't clear who's doing what to whom. the second point is that in iranian culture and in iran historically, written agreements don't mean anything. they are steps on a path to get to where you want to go. i know we in the west consider them holy. so whatever this agreement, first of all, we don't know is the persian version matter, the english version, and finally, jim,