Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, unveiled a bill Wednesday that she says will give small businesses a voice in the government's regulatory processes. She also weighed in on the southern border and Congress' crackdown on social media.
A new bill pushed by Senate GOP leadership aims to broaden Republicans’ deregulatory efforts by enabling small businesses to sidestep certain federal policies that hamper their operations.and chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, introduced the Prove It Act of 2023 on Wednesday. She told Fox News Digital that she intends to bring it up with her Small Business counterpart, committee Chair Ben Cardin, D-Md.
"I will actually be sitting down with Ben Cardin very soon, and we're going to talk about a number of pieces that we intend to look out for this upcoming Congress," Ernst said to reporters gathered in her office."And I'm hoping this will be one of them." The bill would empower small businesses to flag federal policies for review that aren't set by Congress in federal law. The burden would then lie on the relevant agency to prove the policy complies with existing federal law – if it fails to do so, the business in question would be exempt from following the rule.Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is pushing a new bill aimed at helping small companies avoid onerous regulations that Republicans say are killing jobs.
"Right now, a lot of federal agencies will just put rules out that are very harmful for our small businesses. So, this would allow them to push back against that," Ernst said.
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