Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law

Washington, D.C.— Today the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine for Regulations and Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2015 (H.R. 712), by a vote of 244-173.

Washington, D.C.— The House of Representatives today passed the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act (H.R. 1155) by a vote of 245-174. The bill seeks to establish a blue-ribbon review committee to provide Congress with recommendations for the elimination of obsolete or unnecessary regulations that are costly to the American people.

Chairman Goodlatte: It has been years since federal officials declared that the “Great Recession” had ended and recovery had begun.  It has been years since the Obama Administration took office, promising to deliver prosperity and security once more to our Nation. We are now approaching American voters’ next choice of leadership for the United States.  And the Obama Administration seeks to assure us that times are better, and times are safer. Workers, small business owners and Main Street families across our Nation know better.  America is still struggling to creat

Chairman Goodlatte: As we begin 2016, we face the same difficulty we have faced since the beginning of the Obama Administration. Because the Administration and the entrenched Washington regulatory bureaucracy insist on piling burden upon burden on the backs of workers, Main Street families and small business owners, America is still struggling to create enough new jobs and economic growth to produce the prosperity. To turn this problem around, we must not only stem the tide of unnecessarily costly new regulations.

Washington, D.C.— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-Pa.), both appointed as conferees by House Speaker Paul D.

Chairman Goodlatte: H.R.