Last summer the Obama administration asked the Business Roundtable to provide a list of regulations that slowed economic growth and job creation. The result was a 54-page document from some of America’s leading companies.
Yet when House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., recently did the same thing – asking 150 trade groups, companies and think tanks to identify job-killing regulations – he was lambasted by Democrats.
“Inviting businesses to tell us what they want us to do, as opposed to protecting the American people, certainly gives me great concern,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on MSNBC’s “Hardball.”
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