Duncan Faircloth: “I am proud to support the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Act as a cosponsor. Before I was elected to the Senate in…”

“I am proud to support the Small Business Regulatory Fairness Act as a cosponsor. Before I was elected to the Senate in 1992, I spent more than 40 years in the private sector as a farmer and a businessman. I know firsthand how hard it is to run a small business successfully, and how much harder it has become due to burdensome Government regulations. It is only fair that we recognize the limited resources of small businesses, and the need to provide the small business community with greater access to the regulatory process. This bill contains important provisions that encourage comment from small business on proposed regulations; promote easier compliance with regulatory requirements; provide that regulations be explained in a way that they can be understood by small businessmen, not just by bureaucrats; and offer improved protection for small business from punitive or capricious actions by regulators. It is encouraging that this effort to provide greater consideration for small business in the regulatory process is a bipartisan effort. Many of the provisions in this bill are based on recommendations from last year's White House Conference on Small Business. The staging of this conference is a noteworthy exception to the hostility that the Clinton administration has otherwise shown to small business. Hillary Clinton built her health care plan around an employer mandate that would have devastated small business.”