[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1929]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        JOB-KILLING REGULATIONS

  (Mr. QUAYLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. QUAYLE. Mr. Speaker, in just this past year approximately 79,000 
pages of regulations were printed in the Federal Register. The cost to 
comply with our regulatory enterprise exceeds $1 trillion per year.
  Now this past August, the Department of Labor issued its final rule 
governing the non-displacement of qualified workers under service 
contracts. Under this rule, when a government contract is given to a 
new firm, the company is required to first offer employment to the 
previous contractor's workers.
  The administration claims this rule will help government efficiency, 
but it gives a preference to union employees and limits the ability of 
the firm to negotiate and hire the workers that it actually wants. This 
rule will impact thousands of employers and billions in government 
contracting.
  By piling on new hoops for employers to jump through, we are simply 
increasing costs that are passed on to taxpayers. Regulatory compliance 
costs are a hidden tax borne by us all. The administration must stop 
this myriad of job-killing regulations.

                          ____________________