Weekly Republican Address 10/1/11: Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA)

Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivers this week's address, detailing government regulations that cost private-sector jobs and impede economic growth. This fall, as part of the House Republican Plan for America's Job Creators, the House will continue working on legislation to stop excessive and unreasonable regulations. These common-sense bills will save thousands of American jobs and restore the confidence our job creators need to grow and expand our economy. It's time to get our country working again.

OK. I've seen it.

The Ruling Class Republican Establishment is still nibbling around the edges on this.

Why can't they just free us from all these pretend "laws" that unelected Executive branch bureaucrats make in the form of "regulations."

Boiler regulations? You're going to save us from that?

I would strongly prefer a law that simply says that every regulation proposed by any executive branch department or official will not become "law" unless it is reviewed and ratified by both Houses of Congress.

They even have a bill that does this, for "major regulations" in the REINS Act. While I think that bill is needlessly complex, and leaves a big hole for "minor regulations" with big impacts, it's a step in the right direction.

Florida passed something similar in 2010. Now, if any state agency proposes a regulation that will have a cost to the people of this state over a certain threshhold, they have to have it approved by both houses of the Florida legislature. We need something like that on the Federal level.

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