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, an increasing number of huge and complex rules, and a permitting process that makes it virtually impossible to build anything, 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 four bipartisan principles.
With these four simple principles in mind, the Chamber is advancing three bipartisan bills to reform and modernize the regulatory system:
Reforming our government’s regulatory system and permitting process are issues that should unite Americans and their competing interests, not divide them.
Call for comments. Tell EPA to retain the current 2008 ozone standard (75 ppb). States are committing time and money to meet the 2008 ozone standard, yet EPA now wants to impose more stringent restrictions before the current standards are fully implemented. This further strains what are already limited resources that states have for implementation. Learn more at www.uschamber.com/ozone.
- File your own comments. (Click on the blue "Comment Now!" button on the right side of the regulations.gov page.)
- For reference, view a sample letter for businesses and associations to express concerns about the proposed rule.
Backdoor and Backroom Regulation, Heather Peirce, The Hill
EPA's Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People, Larry Bell, Forbes
Over-regulated America, The Economist
Pay Up: Federal Regulations Cost U.S. Economy More Than $2 Trillion Annually, National Association of Manufacturers
The Best and Worst of Regulation in 2014, Sam Batkins, American Action Forum
The Cure For Regulation Destabilization, Clyde Wayne Crews, Forbes
The REINS Act: Increasing The Accountability Of Our Elected Officials, Capital Flows, Forbes
The Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2014, Congressional testimony by Patrick McLaughlin, George Mason University
The Unintended Consequences of Federal Regulatory Accumulation, Mercatus Center, George Washington University
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Statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
ON: Hearing on H.R. 348, the “Responsibly And Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2015” (RAPID Act); H.R. 712, the “Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2015”; and the “Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2015” (SCRUB Act)
TO: U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law
DATE: March 2, 2015
Hearing on H.R. 348, the “Responsibly And Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2015” (RAPID Act); H.R. 712, the “Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2015”; and the “Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2015” (SCRUB Act).
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business federation representing the interests of more than three million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations, and dedicated to promoting, protecting, and defending America’s free enterprise system, supports H.R. 1029, the “EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2015,” and H.R. 1030, the “Secret Science Reform Act of 2015.”
Cost-benefit analysis may be a requirement under presidential executive orders, but federal agencies don’t always live up to it.
This letter thanking Reps. Chabot and Cicilline for introducing H.R. 1023, the “Small Business Investment Company Capital Act of 2015,” was sent to their offices as well as the House Committee on Small Business.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) updated its guidance and examination procedures used to assess banks’ consumer credit products, changes that will immediately affect consumers -- and not for the better.
In the more than 125 years since Congress created the first regulatory body — the Interstate Commerce Commission -- the number of agencies and the scope and reach of the regulations they issue has increased significantly.
Four companies considering the region for investment indicated that the new standards prompted them to look elsewhere.
This statement for the record on Settlement Practices and Enforcement Slush Funds was sent to the House Judiciary committee.
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