FDA rules shift as Johnson urges Obama administration to halt implementation (Illustrated)

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson has urged three of the Obama administration’s top regulators to halt implementation of particularly burdensome new regulations.

Last week, Johnson wrote to Labor Secretary Tom Perez, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, calling on the Obama administration to stop enforcing what he described as onerous rules. These include the Department of Labor’s overtime rule and fiduciary rule, the FDA’s industry-crushing regulations on e-cigarettes, and the EPA’s redefinition of the “waters of the United States,” all of which he said would impose major costs on American businesses and families and lead to serious unintended consequences. These rules are likely to be overturned by the incoming administration and the 115th Congress.

On November 8, the American people signaled their disapproval of a federal government run through regulation and executive action. The new administration and the 115th Congress are likely to revisit and roll back the burdensome regulations imposed by the Obama administration.