http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_re_us/us_republicans_regulationsOn issues ranging from the air we breathe to the noise we make, the business community is telling the government to get out of its hair. And the Republicans, looking toward the 2012 elections, are listening.
The House's principal investigative panel, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is taking its turn Thursday in a hearing designed to give a voice to business complaints about government regulations.
The entire House, meanwhile, could vote this week to direct 10 committees to compile an inventory of rules that adversely affect jobs. The resolution has no practical effect because committee chairmen already are under instructions from the Republican leadership to get rid of or modify rules that businesses don't like.
But there may be a political bounce, and the GOP has scheduled more than nine hours of debate so its members can get dozens of anti-regulation sound bites.
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