House Passes Regulatory Accountability Act; White House Veto Looming
The House passed the Regulatory Accountability Act (HR-185) along party lines Tuesday, with 242 Republicans and eight Democrats voting for it, and 175 Democrats against it, despite a White House veto threat earlier this week. The bill “would impose unprecedented…
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and unnecessary procedural requirements on agencies that would prevent them from efficiently performing their statutory responsibilities,” the Office of Management and Budget said. “It would also create needless regulatory and legal uncertainty and further impede the implementation protections for the American public. This bill would make the regulatory process more expensive, less flexible, and more burdensome -- dramatically increasing the cost of regulation for the American taxpayer and working class families.” The bill’s backers defended it. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., blasted the “real” problematic effects of excessive government regulation. “This legislation gives Americans a better check against their own government by requiring advance notice of proposed major regulations to increase public input,” co-sponsor Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said in a statement. “It also requires agencies to find lower-cost alternative rules when possible, and to clearly demonstrate the additional benefits for any additional cost to the taxpayer.”