House Republicans will make a new push next week to rein in federal rules and regulations that can cost local governments companies millions of dollars each year - 23 years after Republicans first sought to limit unfunded federal mandates.
According to a Republican report on the bill, several independent federal agencies are exempt from the original law, but Foxx's bill would correct that.
Foxx has tried to pass her bill to improve the law for the last few Congresses, and said it's needed because federal rules are still running roughshod over companies and local government officials.
"Every year, Washington imposes thousands of rules on local governments and small businesses," she said last year when she first introduced the bill.
In 2017, for example, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam "Wrote the EPA provided Tennessee with only 8 percent of the $32 million it will cost the state to implement Clean Water Act programs," according to the GOP report on Foxx's bill.
Finally, the bill would codify some the changes President Bill Clinton tried to implement through an executive order in 1993, such as worrying more about the private sectors often costly contribution to compliance.
The GOP continues to play up how its tax cut bill means more money in the pockets of everyday people, and passing Foxx's bill will let them argue they're also out to protect companies and local governments from being forced by the federal government to spend money they don't have.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-to-attack-unfunded-federal-mandates-next-week
According to a Republican report on the bill, several independent federal agencies are exempt from the original law, but Foxx's bill would correct that.
Foxx has tried to pass her bill to improve the law for the last few Congresses, and said it's needed because federal rules are still running roughshod over companies and local government officials.
"Every year, Washington imposes thousands of rules on local governments and small businesses," she said last year when she first introduced the bill.
In 2017, for example, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam "Wrote the EPA provided Tennessee with only 8 percent of the $32 million it will cost the state to implement Clean Water Act programs," according to the GOP report on Foxx's bill.
Finally, the bill would codify some the changes President Bill Clinton tried to implement through an executive order in 1993, such as worrying more about the private sectors often costly contribution to compliance.
The GOP continues to play up how its tax cut bill means more money in the pockets of everyday people, and passing Foxx's bill will let them argue they're also out to protect companies and local governments from being forced by the federal government to spend money they don't have.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-to-attack-unfunded-federal-mandates-next-week
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