Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2015

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Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Chairman, if you look at what is happening in our economy right now, why the economy is struggling so badly through this Obama economy, it is because of radical regulations coming out of Washington.

Every time I go home and meet with small businesses in my district in southeast Louisiana, the common thread is that it is not the local business down the street that is the main threat to their business.

The main threat to small businesses throughout my district--and I hear it from my colleagues as well across the country--are the thousands and thousands of pages of these radical regulations that come out of these Federal agencies, unelected bureaucrats that are imposing, in essence, new law that is making it harder to create jobs in this country.

Hard-working taxpayers deserve a Federal Government that is more efficient, more effective, and more accountable; and that is what the REINS Act does, Mr. Chairman. The REINS Act forces real accountability in regulations that are coming out of Washington.

Whether it is the IRS or the EPA or the NLRB or HHS or CMS, the alphabet soup of Federal agencies that is crippling our economy with all of these regulations is what is holding our economy back.

Why not have a mechanism that says, if a rule is being proposed by a Federal agency by an unelected bureaucrat that is so important that it is going to have a major impact on our economy, shouldn't it at least go through the transparency of coming before the elected representatives of the people, Mr. Chairman?

Why not have these conversations on C-SPAN, not in the dark annals of some Federal bureaucratic agency in Washington, some unelected bureaucrat that is going to wake up one morning and say they are going to create a new law that is going to devastate our economy?

Shouldn't that at least go through public hearings? Shouldn't it have to be passed by the elected people in Congress who will be held accountable every 2 years for the consequences of those regulations?

Let's stop crippling our economy. Let's stop holding our economy back with these radical regulations, Mr. Chairman. Let's pass the REINS Act and bring real accountability into the process of creating regulations in Washington.

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