They also complained that the Superfund program was slow, overly stringent and badly managed and had unfair liability rules.
Yet Representative Frank said he never heard the agency complain about the statue guidelines' being overly stringent.
Mr. Blaugh said the changes simply replaced an overly stringent rule with a more-balanced approach that allowed the big-house trend to live on, within limits.
But they caution that overly stringent rules would hamper legitimate lenders and curtail access to loans for people who need them.
"It's overly stringent in my point of view -- not from a business point of view, but from a social point of view," Mr. Rueda said.
Just as pollution or an irresponsible use of property rights threatens land and climate, so an overly stringent system of intellectual-property rights risks holding back technological progress.
Lobbyists for insurers, drug benefit managers and others in the health industry are mobilizing a campaign to persuade Congress that overly stringent privacy protections would frustrate the potential benefits of digital records.
Missing those payments would be on top of the looming default on Wednesday on payments for future retirees, a financing requirement imposed by Congress in 2006 and now opposed by the post office and its unions as overly stringent.
In a sign the new requirements do not appear to be overly stringent, both EDF and China General Nuclear said they were delighted by the approval, which they claimed will let them proceed with Hinkley and their wider plans for nuclear construction in the UK in future.
That trend left advocates wondering if more people were withdrawing their applications or were being turned down for welfare benefits because of overly stringent or confusing requirements — a fear that will only deepen as a growing number of unemployed and low-income people turn to cash assistance.
In a sign the new requirements do not appear to be overly stringent, both EDF and CGN said they were delighted by the approval, which they claimed would let them proceed with Hinkley and their wider plans for nuclear construction in the UK in future.
