Scoring explanation: Bill prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses in employment agreements being applied to civil rights offenses by employers. Scoring explanation: Undermining the FTC's powers of antitrust regulation. Title: Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018 (2018 roll call h177) Title: Amendment to exempt plaintiffs seeking compensation from the bad faith of an insurer from an act restricting the filing of suits. By setting a very high burden of proof for forming a class, this bill would block many class actions. For example, if a company were to do $50 worth of harm to each of one million of its customers, it would not be feasible for each individual to sue, so the company would only be forced to compensate the customers it harmed if they are able to form a class. Class actions are typically used by individuals when a large business does a small amount of harm to a large number of people. Scoring explanation: This bill would raise the bar for forming a class dramatically. Title: Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2015 (2016 roll call h33) The bill which this amendment would revise (HR 1927) to lessen the burden the bill would place on litigants who wish to proceed as a class. Suing a large business as an individual is often not feasible, while it is more often feasible for a large group that can pool their resources. Scoring explanation: Class actions are generally a means by which individuals can seek compensation from businesses that have harmed them. Title: Amendment to reduce the burden placed on plaintiffs by a bill to curtail class actions (2016 roll call h29) Scoring explanation: This bill is intended to structure the regulatory process in a way that would result in dramatic deregulation of big business. Title: Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2015 (2016 roll call h20) This amendment to the SCRUB Act was intended to protect the independence of those agencies. Scoring explanation: Certain regulatory agencies, such as the SEC and CFPB, are structured to be somewhat independent to minimize the ability of business lobbyists to pressure them. Title: Amendment designed to protect the independence of regulatory agencies (2016 roll call h14) Title: Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h64) Title: Responsibly And Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h518) Title: LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act (2015 roll call h50) In 2015, the administration was clearly more prone to regulating big business than the legislature, but even during Republican administrations, on balance, the administrative agencies largely tend to serve as a check on big business. Scoring explanation: While regulatory actions can be either pro-big business or anti-big business, on balance, having administrative agencies that are capable of regulating does more to constrain big business than to benefit it. Title: Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h482) Title: Amendment to make it more difficult to raise the amount oil companies pay to drill on public land (2015 roll call h408) Title: Ratepayer Protection Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h384) Title: Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h374) Title: Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h333) Scoring explanation: Seeks to give business more control over CFPB Title: Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards Act (2015 roll call h167) Title: State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Fairness Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h159) Title: Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2015 (2015 roll call h157) Title: Democratic FY2016 budget (2015 roll call h139) While arguably both groups are middle class, the impact of denying 11 million lower-income middle class families the credit is not offset by the benefit the bill would have afforded to higher-income middle class families. Scoring explanation: This bill would have eliminated or reduced the child tax credit for 11 million families while increasing the credit for families making between $100,000 and $150,000. Title: Child Tax Credit Improvement Act of 2014 (2014 roll call h451)
Title: Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 (2013 roll call h105)
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