Hatch Hails House Passage of SCRUB Act, Urges Senate to Act

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Seeking to cut costly and unjustified federal regulations, the House of Representatives last week passed the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome--or SCRUB--Act. Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the bill's sponsor and the senior Republican in the Senate, took to the floor to urge the Senate to pass the legislation.

Hatch identified the failure to eliminate outdated and ineffective regulations as a major drag on the economy. "Every President since Jimmy Carter has affirmed the need to review our existing regulations to make sure that they are efficient and are no more intrusive and burdensome than is absolutely necessary" Hatch said. "Nevertheless, administrations of both parties have failed to make meaningful reductions in the regulatory burden--with some retrospective review efforts even adding costs to the economy. With family budgets stretched thin and our economy badly in need of job creation, we need to act to turn this longstanding bipartisan commitment to effective retrospective review into a reality. But to do so, we need to take the responsibility of reviewing old rules away from the bureaucrats who keep failing to make meaningful reductions to the regulatory burden."

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