RADIO IOWA: Ernst touts bipartisan bill to boost watchdog agency
Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa this week is partnering with Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota on two pieces of legislation. One bill would give the U.S. Small Business Administration’s watch-dog agency more authority to force federal officials to assess and acknowledge the financial impact proposed regulations have on small businesses. “Right now we just don’t see that they are being taken seriously by some of these bigger agencies,” Ernst said. “They just really are running roughshod over the Office of Advocacy.” Ernst said the Obama Administration’s EPA ignored complaints from this SBA office about the “costly and direct impact” the Waters of the U.S. rule would have had on small businesses. Ernst and her North Dakota colleague are calling their bill the “Prove It Act”.
