GOP to move to regulations next week
Friday, February 04, 2011
GOP to move to regulations next week
By Pete Kasperowicz , The Hill
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday will meet to mark up a
resolution that instructs 10 House committees to review existing
and pending regulations that are hurting job creation and economic
growth.
The Rules Committee intends to mark up the resolution, set a
rule for consideration in the House and then proceed to a House
vote later next week.
The resolution specifically asks committees to examine
regulations based on 12 factors, including whether they hurt or
limit job creation, economic growth and access to credit. It also
asks committees to find regulations that create economic
uncertainty, result in unfunded mandates on employers, impose undue
cost burdens on companies, or were developed in a non-transparent
way.
The resolution affects House committees on Agriculture,
Education, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Judiciary,
Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Small Business,
Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means.
Business groups and Republicans have charged that regulations
from the Obama administration are choking off the economic
recovery. They have focused on implementation of the healthcare and
Wall Street reform bills, but have also targeted regulations on the
environment, energy and technology.
President Obama last month ordered a review of regulations last
month to eliminate any rules that are stifling economic expansion.
The order was part of an effort by the administration to counter
suggestions it is anti-business.