Reg Watch Fact of the Day:

266 Days:      Since Obama’s Executive Order on Regulations
  92 Days:      Since Obama’s Executive Order on Regulations for                           Independent Agencies
1 Rule:           Repealed this year – spilled milk not considered an oil spill
480 Rules:      Regulations deemed significant under Executive Order 12866
$80.4B:          Cost of regulatory burdens from new rules for the year
62,596 Pages: Pages of regulations in the Federal Register so far this year 81.9 Million:   Hours of annual paperwork burd

REG’S IN THE NEWS:
Politico: Regulations stifle economic growth, (October 4, 2011)
Over the past 15 years, business has been hit with almost 60,000 new federal rules, to say nothing of state-level regulation. Compliance costs alone surpass $1.75 trillion annually, according to the Small Business Administration.

Daytona Beach News-Journal: Obama Should Compromise with GOP on Regulations, (October 4, 2011)
If the president wants to scrape together a job-stimulating compromise package, he needs to approve and fold into his act two bills from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The two bills are the EPA Regulatory Relief Act and the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act.

Wall Street Journal: House Votes to Rewrite EPA Rules on Cement Plants, (October 6, 2011)
If the bill approved Thursday became law, the EPA would have to rescind existing rules for toxic emissions from cement kilns and revise them in a way that is less burdensome to the industry. The bills would also give those facilities at least five additional years to comply.

Washington Times: Truckers Seek Brake on New Rules, (October 6, 2011)
“These costs will affect not only the trucking industry, but every business shipping and receiving goods,” Mr. Boehner and Mr. Cantor wrote. The two Republican leaders cited an estimated $1 billion in increased costs that the big-rig business will face if the “regulatory burden” is put in place.
 

HOUSE GOP SOLUTIONS TO JOB-KILLING REGULATIONS:

CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW ACT ACTION:

After rushing to finalize “Net Neutrality” regulations last December, nine months later, the Office of Management and Budget has cleared the way for the regulations to go into the Federal Register. The rule will regulate the internet for the first time in history, and places government as the gatekeeper of internet services.  On Friday April 8, 2011, the House passed H.J. Res. 37, sponsored by Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, by a vote of 240-179.  Now that the final rule will be published in the Federal Register, the resolution can be brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote with the signatures of 30 Senators after 20 calendar days in a Senate committee.  If passed in the Senate, the resolution will be sent to President Obama’s desk and he will be held directly accountable for a job killing regulation issued by his administration.

In a victory for net neutrality opponents, a judicial panel chose the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a random lottery Thursday to decide where the net neutrality case will be heard. The D.C. Circuit court is considered the most likely to overturn the controversial net neutrality.

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