Regulatory reform bill clears Senate Judiciary Committee on April 27.
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORTS OUT REGULATORY REFORM BILL S 343 on April 27 under a unanimous consent agreement. An April 26 mark-up was postponed by a day because of the funeral of former Mississippi Sen. John Stennis. Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) declared the bill reported out favorably as of 6 p.m. April 26 after a contentious half-hour session during which Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Joseph Biden (D-DE) maintained that the bill should not be reported out of committee until all amendments had been discussed.