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Bill Promoting Job Creation & Reducing Regulations to be Considered This Week
Posted by Randy | October 12, 2011

We could see some movement on legislation to promote job creation and reduce burdensome regulations. This week, the House Judiciary Committee, of which I am a member, will hold a mark-up of H.R. 10, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act. I am a cosponsor of this legislation, which would require that Congress take an up-or-down vote on every new major rule before it could be enforced on businesses and the American people. The bill would provide much-needed certainty for American businesses owners who are often hamstrung due to constantly changing regulations coming out of Washington.

You can read more about it here. You can read the full bill text here.

If the bill is reported favorably out of the Judiciary Committee, the next step would be a vote by the full House of Representatives. I'll be sure to keep you updated on the bill's status as it is considered in committee this week.

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  • Annette Jackson commented on 10/12/2011
    Sorry, but it is demand that creates jobs. I am tired of the same old cant about environmental protection killing jobs -- I do not believe it. If there is a demand for a service or product, the provider will do everything in their power to provide it for the consumer, regardless of regulations. If the product or service is lasting, they will hire. The rightwing have made a boogyman out of the EPA to scare the gullible as they are against almost all regulations, no matter how reasonable necessary.
  • thomas G commented on 10/12/2011
    The public is very disappointed that while 63% of the public supports the president's Jobs Act not a single republican senator voted to create thousands of jobs...WOW. So here we are congressman, knowing that you refuse to consider even a 1 penny increase in the tax on millionaires and billionaires...not 1 single cent! This is your public position...a position you have reiterated on this very blog itself. So it doesn't make much sense to pursue an initiative that falls short of realigning tax rates for millionaires and billionaires as over 80 percent of the public wants. We need come cooperation here and if it cannot come from you the consitutency will have to decide what to do about that. With public outrage on Wall Street and in cities all across the country it is astonishing, simply astonishing that the senate has responded as they have. Since you have expressed the same position as republican senators generally...do we conclude that either you are for the middle class or against them?
  • Becky Hicks commented on 10/13/2011
    Please do not include cuts to Social Security/Medicare in your quest to create a jobs bill. Why is the president so intent on reducing the funding to Social Security at a time when the program is in such peril? Does he want Social Security to fail that badly? It is time we looked at all the "free" social programs this country offers and start cutting those. Social Security is what our entire working force has paid into religiously to provide that much needed income when and if we finally get to retire. Stop promoting bills that harm Social Security! Stop making cuts to Social Security! There are other ways to promote a jobs creation bill. Cut federal taxes before you cut Social Security/Medicare!
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