The Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) announced today it has joined 380 businesses, trade associations, and local chambers of commerce in a letter urging US House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to make consideration of the “Regulatory Accountability Act” an early priority for the 115th Congress.
“The Metals Service Center Institute strongly supports the Regulatory Accountability Act because it will increase transparency and reduce consumer and business costs,” said MSCI President and CEO M. Robert Weidner, III. “Today, regulatory bodies have as much, or even more, influence over our lives and our businesses than Congress. While regulations are necessary to ensure consumer and worker well-being, overregulation imposes significant costs on Americans without improving their daily lives or enhancing their safety or prosperity. We look forward to working with the 115th Congress to pass this bill as well as other strong measures to create jobs and grow the industrial metals supply chain.”
The Regulatory Accountability Act would require federal agencies to invest more effort earlier in the rulemaking process to gather data, evaluate alternatives and receive public input about the costs and benefits of its rules.
The letter argues, “Federal regulations should be narrowly tailored, supported by strong and credible data and evidence, and impose the least burden possible, while still implementing Congressional intent.” It also notes The Regulatory Accountability Act “builds on established principles of fair regulatory process and review that have been embodied in bipartisan executive orders dating to at least the Clinton administration.”
The letter’s signers hail from 47 different states and the District of Columbia and represent a multitude of sectors other than the industrial metals industry, including agriculture, energy, transportation, and manufacturing.