As President Obama was speaking about government regulation to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday, House Republicans sent out almost 2,000 pages of calls for a regulatory rollback.

The GOP evidence came from dozens of business groups, as well as companies large and small, all asking the Congress to push against certain regulations that group after group complained was anti-business.

From the Agricultural Retailers Association to the American Beverage Association, Council of Industrial Boiler Owners and much more, the theme was clear - get Uncle Sam off of our backs.

The Boiler Owners said EPA regulations on Greenhouse Gas emissions, clean air transport rule changes, and different standards on ozone and more "all have negative impacts on existing and potential new jobs within the United States."

The American Meat Institute railed against a new rule that it said "could cost the meat and livestock and related industries more than 100,000 jobs."

The National Automobile Dealers Association detailed how "at least 20 Federal departments and agencies through over 150 separate rules now regulate dealership operations."

And NADA said there are a vast array of local and state laws which also are a burden.

While these 1,947 pages of testimony were being rolled out by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), the President was both endorsing the idea of a regulatory review and telling the Chamber of Commerce that many rules won't be changed at all.

"Even as we eliminate burdensome regulations, America's businesses have a responsibility as well to recognize that there are some basic safeguards, some basic standards that are necessary to protect the American people from harm or exploitation," Mr. Obama said.  

"Not every regulation is bad."

The Obama speech to the U.S. Chamber in Washington, D.C. was a very interesting event to monitor.  While I wasn't in the room, it was very apparent that those in the audience weren't interested in giving Mr. Obama much of a reception.

A number of lines that could have drawn applause from the business oriented crowd instead fell completely flat - I'm talking dead silence in the auditorium, as those in the audience applauded only twice during the 35 minute speech, and a final time when the President was finished.

Don't get me wrong, this wasn't going to be a foot-stomping-standing-ovation crowd.  But you could feel that there wasn't much love at all.

It might be a similar reception at the White House for whatever regulatory changes Republicans propose in coming months, as they vow a top to bottom review of what one company called the "Regulatory Maze" that businesses complain they too often face because of Uncle Sam.