On the recordJuly 20, 2017
Last week, I started ``Freedom Friday'' to highlight freedom-killing regulations currently in effect. Congress used the Congressional Review Act to overturn 14 regulations implemented in the waning days of the Obama administration. The repeal of these rules alone could save the economy millions of hours of paperwork--as much as $3.7 billion in regulatory costs to Federal agencies and up to $35 billion in compliance costs for industries. This is a nice start, but we are not done yet. My main priority here in Congress is to restore the constitutional parameters of the Federal Government and end overregulation. The first regulation that I will be highlighting for ``Freedom Friday'' is an overly burdensome restriction on our trucking industry. California and the Ninth Circuit have imposed more stringent standards for truckers than those established by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. There are some issues over which Congress has clear constitutional authority. This is one of them. We simply cannot allow our vital interstate commerce to fall victim to an incoherent patchwork of burdensome regulations. Our economic and national security depend on resisting this ominous trend. ____________________
