The Chamber recognizes the need for smart regulations to ensure workplace safety and protect public health. But with a $2 trillion price tag in compliance costs and an increasing number of huge and complex rules, it’s clear the regulatory system isn’t working the way it should. Americans deserve a working regulatory system that is fair for everyone, takes into account the views of communities and businesses, evaluates the impact rules will have on jobs and small businesses, and protects our economic and personal freedoms.
The Chamber is building support for commonsense regulatory reform based on three bipartisan principles.
With these principles in mind, the Chamber is advancing two bipartisan bills to reform and modernize the regulatory system:
Reforming our government’s regulatory system should unite Americans and their competing interests not divide them. The U.S. Chamber calls on the Senate to take up and pass both of these regulatory reform bills.
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The power of federal agencies to create sweeping new regulatory programs, as well as the cost of regulations themselves, has increased dramatically since the enactment of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in 1946. In recent years, there has been an unprecedented increase in multi-billion dollar, highly-complex rules issued by federal agencies. These rules have profound impacts on major sectors of the economy such as energy, banking, agriculture, and the Internet. Modernizing the APA, whose rulemaking provisions have remained virtually unchanged, is long overdue.
The Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) would update the 70-year old federal rulemaking process, improving transparency and accountability in the federal rulemaking process and ensuring that the most costly and high-impact rules are well-designed and tailored to accomplish their objectives without causing unnecessary damage to our nation's economy. Specifically, the bill would:
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The undersigned groups strongly urge you to pass H.R. 3438, the “Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists (REVIEW) Act of 2016.” This legislation would address the increasingly common situation where businesses, non-profits, and local governments are forced to commit their resources to comply with a massive new regulation, only to have the regulation subsequently thrown out by a court, leaving them with a useless expense.
This coalition letter regarding the hearing entitled, "Modernizing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act," has been sent to Chairman Upton.
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportational Committee heard from all five FCC Commissioners.
Washington Examiner
By Joseph Lawler
None of President Obama's seven years in office has seen economic growth above 3 percent, and his final year will probably fall short, too.
Lame growth will be Obama's clearest and most damaging legacy, as far as business is concerned.
Today, unnamed government bureaucrats, instead of elected members of Congress, make the vast majority of rules coming out of Washington.
"Sue and Settle" refers to when a federal agency agrees to a settlement agreement, in a lawsuit from special interest groups, to create priorities and rules outside of the normal rulemaking process. The agency intentionally relinquishes statutory discretion by committing to timelines and priorities that often realign agency duties. These settlement agreements are negotiated behind closed doors with no participation from the public or affected parties.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Senior Vice President of Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits Randy Johnson and Chief Economist J.D. Foster will host their annual Labor Day briefing to outline the current top economic and workplace issues for businesses.
GDP says the economy is sputtering. But jobs data says the economy is puttering along. Which is it?
The result from the Obama years? Fewer jobs, higher prices, less growth, and an erosion of Americans’ personal economic freedoms.
It is time to place limits on the agency’s power grab.
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