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Regulatory Integrity Act of 2016

Floor Speech

Date: Sept. 14, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Health and Health Care

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Ms. NORTON. Mr. Chair, there is loads of work for Congress to do ``before we sleep''--from the budget for the federal government itself to funding for the Zika health emergency before it gets any more out of control.

Instead, the House just wasted time on H.R. 5226, the badly misnamed Regulatory Integrity Act, a bill so costly to taxpayers and so redundant of existing legislation that it has attracted a veto threat.

The bill adds wasteful costs to the regulatory process Republicans incessantly claim is too costly now. H.R. 5226 requires every public communication to be published within 24 hours. Duh! Public communications are by definition--public.

Republicans have never seen a regulation they like. Putting new and costly work on agencies won't make regulations any less acceptable. If the point was the same as usual--to try to deter regulations-- Republicans are going to have to try harder.

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