{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://brooks.house.gov/media-center/news-releases/brooks-votes-block-harmful-regulations", "Brooks Votes to Block Harmful Regulations", "2016-09-21", "2016", "2016-09", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Mo Brooks", "B001274", "brooks.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013\u00a0This afternoon, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) voted in favor of H.R. 3438, the Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists (REVIEW) Act, to postpone any federal regulation imposing an annual cost of more than $1 billion until the judicial review process is complete, protecting Americans from being forced to comply with unlawful regulations. \u00a0Congressman Brooks is a cosponsor of the REVIEW Act which seeks to roll back the damage caused by the unparalleled expansion of the regulatory state by the Obama Administration.\u00a0\u00a0\nCongressman Brooks said, \u201cEvery week I hear from constituents who are struggling to breathe under the heavy weight of Washington red tape.\u00a0 While federal regulations are not unique to the Obama Administration, since he took office in 2009, federal agencies have issued more than 20,000 regulations.\u00a0 American workers know the havoc these regulations wreak on our struggling working class, consumers, and businesses.\u00a0 The REVIEW Act will postpone these high-impact rules until judicial review is resolved.\u201d\u00a0\nBrooks added, \u201cFor emphasis, according to a Heritage Foundation study, the compliance burden for regulations from 43 new major rules in 2015 totaled $22 billion.[i]\u00a0 The EPA\u2019s Clean Power Plan rule alone has an annual compliance cost of $7.2 billion dollars.[ii] \u00a0What\u2019s worse, former Energy Department Assistant Secretary Charles McConnell stated that the Clean Power Plan will, at best, reduce global temperature by a mere one one-hundredth of a degree Celsius.\u201d\nBrooks concluded, \u201cThe callousness of unelected rule makers in handing down onerous proclamations, without relevant industry understanding, is staggering. \u00a0The REVIEW Act is an important step in curtailing far-reaching federal regulations, and I was proud to support House passage.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://brooks.house.gov/media-center/news-releases/brooks-votes-block-harmful-regulations"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5089111402630806, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}