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Regulations require regular review. When I talk with business owners in Maine and elsewhere, the single most cited barrier to job growth is the uncertainty about federal regulations. The cost of ensuring compliance with the evermore complex web of mandates and regulations is choking employers’ ability to innovate and create jobs. Regulators owe it to all Americans to ensure the rules and regulations they enforce are efficient, effective, and meeting their goals in the best way possible. That is why all federal regulations need thoughtful and regular review. Unfortunately, too few regulations receive such attention.
 
That is why I joined with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to introduce the Small Business Regulatory Freedom Act. This would require common-sense regulatory reform to help ensure that small business concerns are taken into consideration when Federal agencies promulgate or review regulations.

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