Re: "Republicans have passed nearly 30 bills that would help small businesses create jobs and we are waiting on Senate Democrats to vote on these common-sense measures. The failure to act on these jobs

bills, as well as our crushing debt burden, is undermining economic growth and job creation."

This is what he is referencing:

http://majorityleader.gov/jobstracker/


Here are the objections to the first handful, with citations:

Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act - "Completely remove Clean Water Act protection of our waters from pesticide contamination" (Natural Resources Defense Council)

Energy Tax Prevention Act - "This bill would amend several core components of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Title III of the CAA would be amended to have the term "greenhouse gas" include: water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and any other substance subject to, or proposed to be subject to, regulation, action, or consideration under this Act to address climate change... The act goes on to state that the Administrator of the EPA may take no action involving the consideration of Greenhouse gases as pollutants or contributing factors to climate change." (Wikipedia)

Disapproval of FCC's Net Neutrality Regulations - I think that the Fark nation is well aware of this one.

Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act - "When I first read the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act I almost laughed. It reads like a temper tantrum in writing whose authors just want to get back at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for trying to do its job protecting our water... This bill is a blatant and parochial attack on the federal government's fundamental role in protecting our water and our health." (Clean Water Action)

Consumer Financial Protection & Soundness Improvement Act - "The Administration strongly opposes House passage of the Rules Committee Print of H.R. 1315 because it would amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in a manner that would expose American consumers and the Nation's economy to the same risks that led to the 2008 financial crisis." (The White House)

Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act - "This dangerous bill will not protect jobs. Rather, it will gut 70 year-old worker protections and put American workers and working families at risk. H.R. 2587 would open a huge hole in the National Labor Relations Act - a law that has protected American workers for more than 75 years. In contrast, H.R. 2587 is a reckless bill that will destroy workers' rights. The bill strips from law the only meaningful remedy available to workers when companies violate their rights. It would make it easier for companies to ship jobs overseas and would allow a company to close its doors and set up a new company down the street in order to bust a union. H.R. 2587 is not about creating jobs, it is about undermining workers' rights." (NEA)

Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on The Nation - "The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 2401, which would block two landmark public health regulations under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and require the preparation of costly, unnecessary, and redundant reports. While the Administration strongly supports careful analysis of the economic effects of regulation, the approach taken in H.R. 2401 would slow or undermine important public health protections." (The White House)

Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act - "'If the regulation to remove mercury from cement plants, which is already 13 years overdue, is delayed for even one year, up to 2,500 hundred people will die prematurely,' House Energy & Commerce Committee member Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said Thursday. 'There will 1,700 cases of aggravated asthma, and 1,500 people will suffer heart attacks'." (The Hill)

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I was going to go through them all, but that's depressing enough...

All this means is that Republicans are still demonizing governmental agencies who are supposed to protect us from greedy corporations who don't care about the environment or their workers, still doing unmentionable things to the "regulations kill jobs" chicken. That is how the GOP wants to create jobs, by poisoning the environment, stripping away worker rights, eliminating Net Nutrality and giving their banker buddles anything they want.