Cut burdensome regulations and unshackle job creators
Cut burdensome regulations to help job creators.
Occurrences
In Congress, I’ll fight to create jobs by cutting red tape and unshackling job creators to get the people of southwestern Pennsylvania working again.
Evidence
The campaign biography says Reschenthaler is 'a fighter for cutting spending, lowering taxes, and eliminating job-killing regulations.'
Reschenthaler said 'outdated tax codes and burdensome regulations penalize legal operators' while promoting the Discriminatory Gaming Tax Repeal Act to repeal the federal sports-betting excise tax.
The bill text states it is 'to clarify the Department of State’s exclusive regulatory authority over the au pair cultural exchange program,' and Congress.gov shows it was introduced on 06/26/2025 and referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
House Roll Call 243 records Guy Reschenthaler voting Aye on final passage of H.R. 3746, the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Congress.gov identifies H.R. 3746 as Public Law No. 118-5, and the law summary says Title III, Permitting Reform, modified NEPA review, expedited environmental review for energy storage projects, and ratified Mountain Valley Pipeline permits.
Congress.gov says H.R. 3699 would bar state and local governments from adopting or enforcing laws or regulations that prohibit or limit energy services based on fuel source. The bill page lists Reschenthaler among cosponsors and shows the latest action on 2026-02-04 was committee reporting and placement on the Union Calendar.
Assessments
This was a broad federal policy promise, not a pledge tied to one named bill. Reschenthaler can claim delivery because he voted for final passage of H.R. 3746, enacted as Public Law 118-5 on May 31, 2023, and that law included permitting reforms that reduced some regulatory burdens by expediting and narrowing parts of federal environmental review. He also introduced or backed additional deregulatory measures that showed sustained effort, even though those later bills did not become law. Given the breadth of the promise and his direct legislative role in an enacted deregulatory measure during his term, full delivery is the better fit.
Reschenthaler made multiple concrete federal efforts to reduce regulatory burdens, including introducing bills on sports-betting excise taxes and au pair program regulation that had not become law. More importantly, during his House service he materially advanced enacted deregulatory policy by helping manage House floor consideration of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which became law in 2023 and included permitting and NEPA streamlining provisions framed as cutting red tape for energy and infrastructure development. Because the promise was broad rather than tied to a specific bill or sector, this supports full delivery in the same federal term, though not every later deregulatory bill he backed succeeded.
The evidence shows Reschenthaler made the anti-regulation promise and took concrete legislative actions framed as reducing burdensome regulation or related costs for businesses, including bills on sports-betting excise taxes and au pair program regulatory authority. However, the cited evidence does not show that these efforts became law or produced an implemented regulatory cut. Because there was a serious legislative attempt but no delivered promised outcome, the appropriate outcome is never with an effort badge.