Walberg Champions Amendment to Highlight Impact of Regulations on Wage Stagnation

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-07) voted today for the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act, legislation which establishes a bipartisan commission tasked with reviewing existing federal regulations to help reduce ineffective and intrusive red tape holding back job creation and economic growth. The final bill included an amendment offered by Walberg that instructs the commission to also study the role regulations have on wage stagnation as part of their regulatory review process. Click here to watch Walberg's speech on the House floor.

"Many employers I speak to would rather hire more workers or give their current staff a raise. Instead, they're forced to spend limited resources on making sense of the thousands of pages of new regulations coming out of Washington," Walberg said on the House floor. "Most alarming is that the negative economic impacts of runaway regulations affect lower wage workers the most—immobilizing them from finding work, rising in their careers, and increasing their wages."

Congressman Walberg serves on the House Education and the Workforce Committee as Chair of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee. In addition, he serves on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. For more information on Walberg's work in Congress visit walberg.house.gov.