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Evan Bayh, Andy Card to hit the road for Chamber campaign
Former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and one-time White House chief of staff Andy Card have joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s campaign against burdensome regulations.
Bayh and Card will travel around the United States to provide a “bipartisan message on regulatory reform” through speeches, events and media appearances, according to a memo that was obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.
The chamber enlisted Bayh and Card as part of a larger campaign to promote regulatory relief, according to a June 2 memo from Chamber President Tom Donohue.
The anti-regulatory effort will focus on regulatory relief, broadening regulatory reform and highlighting “the dangers and costs of overregulation.” Uncertainty caused by these regulations are why “employers are reluctant to hire and why we’re witnessing the weakest recovery from a recession since World War II,” Donohue said in the memo.
Card served as George W. Bush’s White House chief of staff in 2000 and served as secretary of transportation for a brief stint in the early 1990s.
Supporters of regulatory reform aren’t happy about the new faces for the Chamber’s campaign.
“Evan Bayh and Andy Card both know from their years of government service that the propaganda from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on regulation has no basis in reality,” said Public Citizen President Robert Weissman in a statement. “They should be ashamed of themselves.”
The Chamber listed the health care law, the financial regulatory reform bill, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Labor Department as entities where many of the regulatory reforms have been focused.
“America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state,” Donohue said in the memo. “Endless delays are precipitated by often capricious and conflicting rules at different level of government have damaged our reputation as … a can-do country that gets important things done faster and better than anyone else.”
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