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Leashing Leviathan: The Case for a Congressional Regulatory Budget

Press Release

By: Mike Lee
By: Mike Lee
Date: May 23, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

On Wednesday, May 25 at 10 AM EDT, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) will be joined by Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Mark Walker (R-NC) and Dave Brat (R-VA) to discuss the Article I Project's Regulatory Budget Act.

The Regulatory Budget Act would, for the first time, require Congress to vote on the total regulatory burden each federal agency may impose on the American people each year -- a budget for federal regulatory costs to mirror Congress's annual budget for taxes and spending.

Just as Congress binds the federal government to a spending budget every year, it has the power -- and we believe the obligation -- to maintain an annual regulatory budget, so that the American people know, and can determine, the cost of the rules and regulations with which they must comply.


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