Fact Sheets
CURB Act Would Increase Regulatory Uncertainty and Require the Impossible (12/1/11)
The CURB Act would go far beyond a simple codification of previous executive orders: Currently, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) reviews detailed agency cost-benefit analyses for economically significant proposed regulations those having an annual impact of $100 million or more on the economy. Read more...
The Regulatory Accountability Act of 2011: Legislation Would Override and Threaten Decades of Public Protections (11/22/11)
The innocuous-sounding Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA), co-sponsored in the Senate by Rob Portman (ROH), Mark Pryor (D-AR), and Susan Collins (R-ME) and in the House by Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Collin Peterson (D-MN), is, in reality, a true threat to environmental, workplace, public health, and finance reform rules. Read more...
Impacts of the Regulatory Accountability Act (11/16/11)
The Regulatory Accountability Act (S. 1606/H.R. 3010) will grind to a halt the rulemaking process at the core of implementing the nations public health, workplace safety, and environmental standards. This bill will not improve the federal regulatory process; it will cripple it. Rules that somehow make it through the... Read more...
Multiple Surveys Show Regulations Not Major Concern to Small Business (10/31/11)
The current jobs crisis is being used as an excuse for rolling back the nations public protections. However, most small business owners dont cite regulations as a major problem for their businesses or as a disincentive for hiring. Read more...
The REINS Act: A Radical Threat to Health, Safety, and Other Public Protections (10/31/11)
The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards strongly opposes the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act of 2011 (H.R. 10/S. 299). The REINS Act would threaten critical public protections by requiring congressional review of all major rules, placing an impossibly high burden on Congress in the process. Read more...
The Facts About Regulatory 'Reform' (8/1/11)
The supporters of deregulation have been busy spreading myths about the regulatory process, claiming it needs reform. Here are the facts... Read more...
The Cost of Regulatory Delay (7/20/11)
The inordinate amount of time it takes to develop effective public health and safety standards and to get them enacted illustrates a significant flaw in our regulatory system. Read more...
Small Business Regulatory Reform in the 112th Congress is Unwarranted (6/22/11)
Several bills have been introduced in the House and Senate to alter the regulatory process in the name of small businesses. The bills would expand the cost‐benefit analyses regulatory agencies are required to prepare, exempt small businesses from certain requirements and penalties, and generally seek to create more barriers to... Read more...
The Overstated Cost of Regulation (6/22/11)
Why you should not believe regulations cost Americans $1.75 trillion a year. If youve been listening to members of Congress who generally oppose federal regulation,chances are you have heard this number. Read more...
Regulations, Employment, and the Economy: Fears of Job Loss Are Overblown (4/12/11)
Government regulations concerning everything from financial markets to offshore oil drilling to food safety are often criticized as too costly and a threat to job creation. Read more...