On the recordJanuary 6, 2016
I am pleased to bring this structured rule forward on behalf of the Rules Committee. This rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1155, the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2016, or the SCRUB Act. This is a bipartisan measure that provides a fair and reasonable way to find and repeal outdated and inefficient regulations that are still on the books. It doesn't target any particular type of regulation or industry, but it prioritizes older, expensive rules that are ripe for improvement or may no longer be necessary. The needs of our economy, small businesses, and American families aren't the same today as they were 15 or 20 years ago. Thus, we should ensure that the rules governing the way we live and work reflect what is best for our country today, not what agencies thought best decades ago. I thank my colleague from Missouri for introducing this bipartisan solution and his staff for their hard work on this measure. If you put a piece of paper in the hand of every single person who lives in my hometown of Gainesville, Georgia, it still wouldn't equal the number of pages in the 2015 Federal Register. In fact, it comes in at a record-setting 82,036 pages. That means there were over 82,000 pages of new rules and regulations proposed just last year. The Code of Federal Regulations is 235 volumes long, containing 175,000 pages of Federal regulations.…
