House Republican Budget Resolution Includes Policy to Rein in Federal Overregulation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Republican Budget Resolution being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives this week includes a policy statement that outlines the intent to reassert Congress' legislative authority and prevent excessive overreach in the federal rulemaking process, while aiming to save the American people billions of dollars in burdensome compliance costs. While the Budget Resolution is not law, it encourages the instructed authorizing committees to include regulatory reform policies, such as the REINS Act, in the final reconciliation package to remove unnecessary, costly and growth constraining regulations.
The policy statement was offered and adopted via amendment by Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) during the House Budget Committee markup of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025.
“I want to thank Congresswoman Cammack for leading this effort over the last few years and allowing me to assist during the House Budget Committee markup. Hardworking Americans have been plagued for far too long by burdensome regulations put in place by unelected Washington bureaucrats. The REINS Act Amendment tackles overreach within the executive branch and reasserts Congress’s authority under Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution to approve or disapprove regulations before they take effect. This amendment will go a long way in ending bureaucratic rule and restores the power back to the people as our founders intended,” said Congressman Josh Brecheen.
The policy statement emphasizes the need to reduce the burden of excessive regulations and ensure:
- Congress continues to examine ways to relieve the burdens of overregulation throughout the federal government;
- Congress is ready to promote initiatives that will reduce government bureaucracy, enhance Federalism, and increase economic prosperity through deregulation;
- to not only reduce burdensome, costly regulations, but to also reassert the role of Congress; and
- to enact legislation through reconciliation that strengthens Congress, scales back Federal regulations, limits future bureaucratic red tape, and unleashes economic growth, such as the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act.
BACKGROUND:
The unchecked power and rapid growth of the federal government has led to burdensome regulations and layers of red tape that have hurt small businesses, strangled domestic energy production, weakened our labor market, and imposed costs on taxpayers. The Biden-Harris administration dramatically expanded Executive Branch power and imposed an unprecedented $1.7 trillion in cumulative regulatory costs on the economy, as well as over three hundred million regulatory paperwork hours, placing enormous compliance burdens on businesses and consumers. The onerous regulations under the Biden-Harris administration stifled the growth of our economy and made it harder for America’s households and small businesses to thrive.
Read Sec. 4003. Policy Statement on Government Deregulation HERE.
