02/01/2010
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"Mr. Pulkkinen's experience is not unique or even unusual. Small businesses all over the country are facing the same kind of pressure from regulators and drawing the same conclusion."
"Federal agencies are at work on more than 4,200 new rules, 845 of which affect small businesses; 224 of these rules are major rules--that means that their impact is $100 million or more."
"Reforms like those in the CURB Act, introduced by Senator Collins, S. 602, and S. 1030 would be a great start in ensuring that agencies make public a reasonable estimate of a rule's indirect impact."
"If you did a poll of the American people, I doubt that you would find very many who have ever heard of OIRA, and yet the office that you head is extraordinarily important in reviewing all regulations ..."