[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12525]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               ALERT ACT

  (Mr. HOLDING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOLDING. Madam Speaker, in North Carolina, small businesses are a 
primary driver of the economy. These businesses, like many across the 
country, are harmed by excessive regulation.
  Over the past 4 years, our Nation's cumulative regulatory cost burden 
has increased by $520 billion. What's worse is this administration has 
failed to disclose, as required by law, the effects of new regulations 
in a timely manner. The administration is required to submit a 
regulatory agenda twice a year, but they have consistently failed to do 
so.
  Madam Speaker, small businesses are not given enough notice of how 
new regulations will affect their tough decisions, whether to cut a 
worker's hours or wages or adjust their business plan otherwise. That 
is why I introduced, Madam Speaker, the ALERT Act, H.R. 2804, the All 
Economic Regulations are Transparent Act, to ensure that the 
administration publishes its regulatory agenda in a timely manner.
  Madam Speaker, the least this administration can do for small 
businesses is follow the law and provide notice as to what regulations 
are coming down the pipeline.

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