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616 Business Groups to Senate: Get
Regulatory Reform Done this Year
By the U.S. Chamber in our country. An unelected fourth branch of government—the
regulatory branch—is holding our small business sector back
In a letter sent last night to Senate Majority Leader Mitch while imposing unnecessary costs on larger companies too…As
McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a important as it is, regulatory relief alone is not enough. We need
broad cross-section of America’s business community urged the to reform the regulatory process itself…The Chamber has been
lawmakers to take up and pass the Regulatory Accountability Act leading the fight for the Regulatory Accountability Act. This law
of 2017 (RAA). would fundamentally transform how agencies implement major
rules”.
Led by the Chamber of Commerce, the letter was signed by 616
business groups—including trade associations and state and The groups write in the letter to Senate leadership, “We believe
local chambers of commerce—from all 50 states and the District that federal regulations should be narrowly tailored, supported
of Columbia. A similar letter sent to leadership in the House of by strong and credible data and evidence, and impose the least
Representatives last year garnered 380 signatories, and helped burden possible, while implementing congressional intent. Now
catapult the issue to the top of the 2017 legislative docket. The is the time for Congress to reclaim its constitutional legislative
House passed the RAA with a bipartisan vote of 238-183 on authority by ensuring agencies implement congressional intent,
January 11. The Senate now has the opportunity to modernize the not the intent of the agency”.
Administrative Procedure Act (APA), whose rulemaking provisions
have remained virtually unchanged since it was enacted in 1946.
U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue said The Chamber has been a champion of regulatory reform for
recently at his State of American Business address that no one years. The business organization has released a series of reports
has been hurt more by regulatory overreach than America’s small aimed at holding government accountable for an increasingly
businesses. Donohue said, “Small companies account for much of complex web of regulations.
the innovation and more than 60 percent of the new job creation
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616 Business Groups to Senate: Get
Regulatory Reform Done this Year
By the U.S. Chamber in our country. An unelected fourth branch of government—the
regulatory branch—is holding our small business sector back
In a letter sent last night to Senate Majority Leader Mitch while imposing unnecessary costs on larger companies too…As
McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a important as it is, regulatory relief alone is not enough. We need
broad cross-section of America’s business community urged the to reform the regulatory process itself…The Chamber has been
lawmakers to take up and pass the Regulatory Accountability Act leading the fight for the Regulatory Accountability Act. This law
of 2017 (RAA). would fundamentally transform how agencies implement major
rules”.
Led by the Chamber of Commerce, the letter was signed by 616
business groups—including trade associations and state and The groups write in the letter to Senate leadership, “We believe
local chambers of commerce—from all 50 states and the District that federal regulations should be narrowly tailored, supported
of Columbia. A similar letter sent to leadership in the House of by strong and credible data and evidence, and impose the least
Representatives last year garnered 380 signatories, and helped burden possible, while implementing congressional intent. Now
catapult the issue to the top of the 2017 legislative docket. The is the time for Congress to reclaim its constitutional legislative
House passed the RAA with a bipartisan vote of 238-183 on authority by ensuring agencies implement congressional intent,
January 11. The Senate now has the opportunity to modernize the not the intent of the agency”.
Administrative Procedure Act (APA), whose rulemaking provisions
have remained virtually unchanged since it was enacted in 1946.
U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue said The Chamber has been a champion of regulatory reform for
recently at his State of American Business address that no one years. The business organization has released a series of reports
has been hurt more by regulatory overreach than America’s small aimed at holding government accountable for an increasingly
businesses. Donohue said, “Small companies account for much of complex web of regulations.
the innovation and more than 60 percent of the new job creation
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