He also supports a reduction in costly, burdensome government regulations that do nothing but increase costs of farmers and small businesses.
Support reducing costly, burdensome government regulations.
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Evidence
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Under "Taxes & Regulations," the campaign site says DesJarlais "supports a reduction in costly, burdensome government regulations" that increase costs for farmers and small businesses.
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DesJarlais said needless bureaucratic red tape and excessive government regulations were hamstringing job creators, and praised the REINS Act as requiring congressional approval for major regulations before they could be imposed.
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The House Clerk records that H.R. 10, the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, passed the House on June 8, 2017 by roll call 299.
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The bill text says it would amend the Horse Protection Act and replace a USDA regulation-based approach with industry-specific inspection rules; Congress.gov shows DesJarlais as sponsor and that it was introduced and referred to committee.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 294 on September 2, 2026 as final passage of H.R. 1501, the Protecting Domestic Mining Act. The bill passed 218-201, and Scott DesJarlais, Republican of Tennessee, voted Yea.
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The engrossed House text of H.R. 1501 amends the FAST Act to include mining and mineral processing as covered projects and bars the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing a proposed rule narrowing mining-sector eligibility under FAST-41. The text states that the bill passed the House on September 2, 2026.
Assessments
The promise was framed as supporting reductions in costly, burdensome regulations, not guaranteeing comprehensive regulatory repeal. In the 119th Congress, DesJarlais voted Yea on final House passage of H.R. 1501, a deregulatory permitting/mining bill that passed the House on September 2, 2026. Because he acted in his federal legislative role during the same term and the supported measure cleared his chamber, this is enough to count the support-based promise as delivered. His additional sponsorship of deregulation-oriented legislation reinforces the finding even though that bill itself did not become law.
The promise is framed as support for reducing burdensome regulations, not as a guarantee to single-handedly enact a broad deregulatory agenda. The evidence shows DesJarlais repeatedly took concrete pro-deregulation actions while in office, including backing the REINS Act, supporting the House-passed Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, and sponsoring later deregulation-oriented legislation. Because a federal representative gets credit for materially supporting and advancing the promised policy position, these actions satisfy a promise to support deregulation even though not all such efforts became law.
The promise was phrased as a commitment to support reducing burdensome regulations, not as a pledge to enact a specific deregulation bill. DesJarlais took direct same-office federal actions consistent with that promise: publicly backed the REINS Act, supported the House-passed Financial CHOICE Act, and sponsored later deregulation-oriented legislation in the 119th Congress. Some measures did not become law, so the evidence is stronger for fulfilled support than for a completed broad regulatory rollback, but the stated promise was to support the policy direction.
The promise was framed as a commitment to support reducing costly, burdensome regulations, not as a guarantee that deregulation would be enacted. The evidence shows DesJarlais publicly advocated for anti-regulation measures, supported House-passed deregulatory legislation such as the REINS Act and Financial CHOICE Act, and sponsored deregulation-oriented legislation in the 119th Congress. That satisfies the support-based promise within the same term context, even where some measures did not become law.