Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:
National Taxpayers Union
h2017-114.
h2017-114.
League of Conservation Voters
ASSAULT ON ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARDS.
Representative Jason Smith (R-MO) sponsored H.R. 998, the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act, which would jeopardize critical environmental safeguards that have been in place for decades and make it extremely difficult to develop new standards in response to threats to public health and the environment. Under the guise of regulatory reform, this legislation creates a regulatory review commission that would disregard the public benefits of environmental safeguards and only consider the costs to industries. This bill also creates a misguided “cut-go” system for safeguards, requiring any agency issuing a new safeguard to remove an existing safeguard of equal or greater cost, which would result in key public health protections being eliminated. The House approved H.R. 998. The Senate took no action on this legislation.
AFL-CIO
SCRUB Act of 2017.
This bill, part of a broad anti-regulation agenda, would require any agency that issues a new regulation to remove an existing regulation of equal or greater cost. The bill passed the House amended.
Citizens Against Government Waste
Regulatory Review Commission – Passage.
Passage of the bill that would establish a nine-member commission to review existing federal regulations and identify regulations that should be repealed on the basis of reducing costs on the U.S. economy. The commission would identify those regulatory policies that it deems should be repealed immediately, and would set up a "Cut-Go" system that would require agencies to repeal existing rules to offset costs before issuing a new rule. As amended, the commission, in identifying which rules should be repealed, would be required to evaluate the extent to which a repeal of a rule would impact public health. It would bar from membership on the commission individuals who have been registered lobbyists during the previous two years.
The National Association of Manufacturers
HR998 Searching for Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome(SCRUB) Act.
Vote on H.R. 998, Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act. This legislation would establish a "Retrospective Regulatory Review Commission" to identify and recommend to Congress for repeal any existing federal regulations that can be eliminated to reduce unnecessary regulatory costs. The bill establishes a goal of reducing cumulative costs of federal regulation by 15 percent and directs the commission to give priority to older major rules.