Sessions Votes to Hault Obamas Year-End Regulatory Spree

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) Chairman of the House Rules Committee today released the following statement after voting in favor of a bill that he introduced to halt the implementation of high-cost or politically-driven regulations during the last days and months of the Obama Administration 

In the past eight years this Administration has issued more than 229 major regulations that have burdened job creators and American families with over $108 billion of crushing costs annually. In the waning days of the Obama Administration Americans face an even greater threat - regulations that are estimated to cost as much as $113 billion that will be the product of political expediency rather than economic benefit and careful analysis. As Chairman of the Article 1 Task Force I led my Republican colleagues in developing effective tools to reassert our constitutional authority and put a stop to the gross executive overreach that we have seen in the past eight years. As a direct result of our work I joined my colleagues Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Chairman Darrell Issa in introducing the Midnight Rules Relief Act. This common sense legislation will provide relief from onerous last minute rules by allowing Congress to disapprove of any and all final attempts by this Administration to push their pro-regulatory agenda.  We have a responsibility to the American people to ensure the Obama Administration cannot further cripple our economy by pushing through costly and political regulations at the last hour of their occupancy of the White House without reasonable and responsible oversight.

For more information on H.R. 5982 Midnight Rules Relief Act click here.