The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) offered its support to bipartisan measures to improve the rulemaking process and review outdated federal regulations that were to be marked up in late summer by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Small business owners consistently rate government requirements and red tape as one of the most important issues facing their business.
“Small business owners struggle to keep up with all of the existing and new regulations coming from federal, state and local governments,” said Amanda Austin, NFIB vice president of public policy. “They want to focus on growing their business, but instead find themselves filling out paperwork and worrying about fines. We appreciate that there are Republican, Democrat and Independent Senators working to make government think more carefully about the flood of rules.”