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Hudson Amendment to Block Future Obama Regulations Added to Spending Bill

07/07/16
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July 7, 2016
 
Hudson Amendment to Block Future Obama Regulations Added to Spending Bill
  
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08) spoke on the House floor in support of his amendment to block future Obama Administration regulations. His amendment – which would prohibit funds from the appropriations bill from being used to propose or finalize a regulatory action until January 21, 2017 – was adopted by voice to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act for FY17(H.R. 5485).
 
Rep. Hudson’s amendment is supported by Americans for Tax Reform, Citizens Against Government Waste, National Taxpayers Union, and FreedomWorks.
 
To watch Rep. Hudson’s remarks in support of this amendment, click here and here. The transcript is below.
 
“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I rise today to urge my colleagues to support my amendment that prohibits future regulations from the Obama Administration. 
 
This is a common sense step to rein in our regulatory system and make it work for the American people – and not the other way around. 
 
Since my first days in office, one message I continue to hear is people are tired of an unaccountable government that oversteps its bounds.
 
In April, I was successful in pushing the EPA to withdraw a harmful regulation that would have devastated the motorsports industry. I recently had the opportunity to visit a national leader in custom auto-racing parts in my hometown of Concord, North Carolina. I spoke with one worker who told me that if this one regulation would have gone through, he would have lost his entire livelihood. That, Mr. Chairman, is unacceptable.
 
The problem is agencies have moved beyond their constitutional authority, and Washington bureaucrats are accountable to no one. They show little regard for the real world damage of their new rules on working families, on people looking for jobs, on our economy in general.
 
From regulatory gut-punches like Obamacare and ever-expanding EPA rules, stacking one on top of the other often before the previous rule is even enacted. Regulations under this president have woven a web so complex and large, it risks ensnaring every American. This means less job opportunities. It means lower wages and more families struggling.
 
At its core, overregulation is a form of stealth taxation. Working families and working people are paying the price for every new rule that comes out of Washington.
 
Now, I recognize some regulations are necessary. But we need a regulatory system that is transparent – one that balances the needs of our environment and public safety with economic strength and jobs. One that benefits hardworking Americans, not big government, big labor and big business.
 
It is time for us to chart a new pro-growth course away from this administration’s burdensome regulations so that Americans can get back to work, and this amendment is one solution. It will prevent the president from unleashing a new hailstorm of regulations in an attempt to cement his legacy in the last months of his administration, and I encourage my colleagues to support it.
 
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I reserve the balance of my time.”
 
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