"I am a proponent of close examination of ways to improve and streamline the rule book," Currie said.
The proposals would streamline the tax rules for flow-through entities — companies that do not file their own tax returns but instead are structured to pass their profits or losses directly to their investors, which is how many small businesses are organized.
Lynn E. Turner, a former chief accountant at the S.E.C., said the agency was probably motivated not just by a desire for transparency, but by a need to streamline the huge rule-writing task ahead.
In a statement, Mrs. Whitman said she had supported streamlining the pollution rules because many groups agreed that they "had grown cumbersome, unreliable and unpredictable".
The labor overhaul, which the Senate passed late Tuesday, streamlines the cumbersome rules that analysts say discourage small businesses from hiring workers and instead push millions of Mexicans into the underground economy.
St. Andre streamlined the D&D rules, reducing the complexity, and added a bit more humor.
If we truly see homelessness as a crisis, we would be instituting emergency rules that would temporarily breakdown bureaucratic barriers, overcome expensive rules and streamline the process.
His goal was to streamline the different and sometimes clashing rules for commercial banks, savings and loans and nonbank mortgage lenders.
