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Dear Friends,
Today, hardworking families pay roughly $15,000 every year in hidden regulatory fees. The excessive amount of regulations has cost us new jobs and stunted our nation’s business growth. Government tape directly hurts Arkansas and American families.
We need regulatory reforms that will allow families to keep their hard-earned money instead of it going towards wasteful government fees and compliance costs. Congress and this administration have been working hard to provide regulatory relief to hardworking Americans and job creators, so you have more money in your wallet.
Last year, I wrote a letter to then-President-elect Donald Trump asking him to create a regulatory relief task force to address the overly burdensome regulations from federal agencies that are hurting economic and job growth. I am pleased that this administration is showing an appetite for eliminating bad regulatory policy and performing cost-benefit analyses for new rules and regulations. Earlier this year in February, President Trump ordered federal agencies to create regulatory reform task forces to identify rules in need of elimination and/or modification.
In addition, the President signed a 2-for-1 Executive Order that states for every federal regulation created, two existing regulations must be eliminated. The order also requires the cost of any new regulation to be offset by eliminating regulations with the same costs to businesses.
Furthermore, in Congress we have used what is called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn some of the worst regulations from the end of the Obama Administration. Before this Congress, only one CRA successfully passed both the House and the Senate and was signed into law. So far, we’ve already done so much more. The House has passed 15 CRAs, the Senate passed 13 of them, and President Trump signed 11 into law this year. The White House estimated that by repealing these 11 damaging regulations, we will save $10 billion over 20 years.
In Congress, I voted in support of the SCRUB Act, which passed the House by a bipartisan vote of 240-185 on March 1, 2017. If enacted, this bill would establish a bipartisan commission to identify outdated and unnecessarily burdensome regulations that need to be repealed and/or modified.
We need a task force or commission to help better assess the problem and keep Congress engaged with the administration on the topic of regulatory reform. The SCRUB Act creates the type of task force that can be useful in stopping the debilitating effects bad regulatory policies have on the growth of a healthy economy.
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The House has worked to enact necessary legislation to address this important issue through the passage of the Midnight Rules Relief Act, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, and the Regulatory Accountability Act. These three bills would implement important changes to the federal government’s regulatory system to eliminate the ability of Washington bureaucrats to unilaterally write laws masked as regulations.
In time, we hope to remove as much of this unnecessary regulatory tape and build a government regulatory system that works for the people - allowing growth and economic prosperity. We have rolled back job-killing regulations at an unprecedented rate, and we’re committed to delivering pro-job, pro-growth policies that help Arkansans and Americans.
Sincerely,
Representative French Hill |
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I was pleased to visit Lexicon Steel this week to discuss skilled workforce challenges and infrastructure priorities with Patrick Schueck, Jeff Weatherly, and Steve Grandfield.
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There is much to be excited about in the heart of the Natural State as the City of Little Rock and Little Rock Regional Chamber launched the #LoveLittleRock campaign! Go visit lovelittlerock.org to learn why I consider Central Arkansas a hidden gem and so many businesses are started, expanded, and relocated here.
Congrats to Rock Region METRO, and their board Chairman Allie Freeman on being awarded the FTA's Bus and Bus Facilities Discretionary Grant. I was happy to supply a support letter to show the importance of this project and the impact it would have on Arkansas's Second Congressional District. With these funds, they have purchased seven new compressed, natural gas fueled busses to continue with their goal to replace their fleet of diesel busses.
Thank you Little Rock Mayor Stodola, and Rock Region board member Bentley Wallace of University of Arkansas Pulaski Tech for being there as well to celebrate these exciting new acquisitions.
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