Climate regulations — a long road ahead
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed regulations to govern carbon emissions from existing power plants. The regulations, the centerpiece of President Obama's agenda on climate...
View ArticlePut teeth in congressional review
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) was enacted in 1996 to provide a measure of congressional control over regulations. The CRA requires federal agencies to provide Congress and the General...
View ArticleThe Congressional Review Act, rarely used and (almost always) unsuccessful
In trying to stop Obama administration regulations, Republicans in Congress recently reached into their bag of tools and pulled out an old rusty hammer that hasn't been used successfully since 2001....
View ArticleThe REINS Act will keep regulations and their costs in check
Last week, the House passed legislation that could change the way Washington works for the better. It will help give Congress more oversight on spending, will make the executive branch more accountable...
View ArticleClock is ticking on bid to block EPA water rule
If ever a rule deserved killing, it's the new water rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A classic example of "regulators gone wild," the rule...
View ArticleHow Trump and GOP might tackle Obama's 'midnight regulations'
Transitions are busy times in politics. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of regulation. The Obama administration issued many regulations in the time after President Trump won the presidency,...
View ArticleCongress overturns some Obama regs, but there's more to undo
It's always a risk that an outgoing presidential administration and the executive agencies under administration control will issue complicated and partisan rules as a last-ditch effort to preserve the...
View ArticleCongress should preserve rules that protect consumers using prepaid cards
Maybe you, like millions of other consumers in the United States, are using prepaid debit cards more frequently now than in the past. What you might not know is that some in Congress are playing...
View ArticleSenate receives official net neutrality notice from FCC
The Senate has received the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) official notice of measures to scrap net neutrality rules, two congressional sources confirmed.The notice is one of the first...
View ArticleSenate majority offers Biden new avenues on Trump environmental rollbacks
The incoming Senate Democratic majority opens new avenues for the incoming Biden administration to reverse a host of last-minute environmental rollbacks by President Trump.The Environmental Protection...
View ArticleSenators eye rollback of Trump methane rule with Congressional Review Act
Lawmakers are weighing using the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to reverse a Trump era-rule that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate methane.Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)...
View ArticleDemocrats disappoint by not going after more Trump regs with CRA
Senate Democrats are planning to use their legislative authority to roll back just a handful of Trump-era regulations, disappointing some activists who hoped they would be more aggressive in using...
View ArticleHouse Democrats target HHS 'sunset' rule with Congressional Review Act
House Democrats are eyeing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn a controversial Department of Health and Human Services rule passed in the final days of the Trump presidency that would...
View ArticleThe Fed's 'mission creep' on community reinvestment is unwise
The Fed was criticized recently for “mission creep” by engaging in research on “social policy topics” such as climate change and racial justice, reflecting political and normative views of unelected...
View ArticleHouse to take big step on eliminating Trump-era rules
The House is gearing up for votes this week to undo three Trump-era rules, using a special legislative tool to repeal some of the previous administration’s agency actions.Democrats will draw on the...
View ArticleHouse votes to nix Trump methane rule
The House voted on Friday to get rid of a Trump administration rule that weakened regulation on a powerful greenhouse gas called methane.The measure, passed by the House in a 229-191 vote, has already...
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