Earlier this month, the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law held a hearing highlighting the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2013 (H.R. 2122). The hearing examined the burdensome impact new regulations have on businesses such as ready mixed concrete operations and cement plants. Testifying on behalf of the concrete and cement industries was NRMCA Executive Committee member and Government Affairs Committee Vice Chairman Robert Sells, president of Titan’s the Mid-Atlantic Business Unit.

Sells told lawmakers of the negative and overreaching impacts many regulations have on ready mixed concrete and cement operations, and which haven’t been given proper consideration by the business community and other stakeholders. He noted that the cost impact it takes to implement each rule ultimately stifles job creation and economic growth across the country and stressed the need for commonsense regulations versus just regulations for the sake of regulating by stating, "What we are asking for is a balanced and common-sense approach that provides for justifiable, achievable and cost-effective regulations."

Click here to access Sells’ testimony and the full hearing.