House GOP to focus on overregulation this fall
It appears that letter Speaker John Boehner sent to the White House last week foreshadowed part of the House GOP’s legislative agenda for this fall. From a National Journal report on a memo House Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent Monday to Republican members about tackling “10 job-destroying regulations”:
Cantor wrote that Republicans will kick off their efforts the week of September 12 by seeking to overrule a National Labor Relations Board ruling that restricts Boeing’s efforts to move an assembly line from unionized Washington state to South Carolina, a right-to-work state. Business leaders accuse the Obama administration of seeking to to help labor allies. Cantor noted that freshman Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C., has introduced legislation to prevent NLRB from “restricting where an employer can create jobs in the United States.”
Other regulatory proposals or rules to be targeted in following weeks and months touch on Environmental Protection Agency standards for cross-state air pollution from power plants, boilers, coal ash in mining-heavy states, cement production, and farm dust; new ozone standards; greenhouse-gas performance standards; and some rules under the new health care law.
House Republicans have been attacking these kinds of regulations as executive-branch overreaches, and the idea that bureaucrats are clamping down on businesses during persistently high unemployment is likely to resonate with a lot of voters. It also plants a stake in the ground for Boehner and Cantor ahead of President Obama’s new jobs plan.
They aren’t running against him next year, but I would expect this to be a welcome fight among the Republicans who are running.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:01 pm
Coward.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
12:03 pm
Getalife…..you placed a period after the word “Coward”. Do you really think that is a sentence?
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
12:04 pm
Getalife shows the average IQ level of the Obama voter. We wonder why the country is in this mess?
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:08 pm
So, you think that $1.75 TRILLION in costs to businesses isn’t keeping them from hiring?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703860104575508122499819564.html
Think again.
When your costs to comply are higher than your tax load, we’ve gone too far in regulating businesses.
UGA 1999
August 30th, 2011
12:08 pm
Ok guys have a great day. Unlike Obama’s reverend Mr. Wright, I say “God Bless America”! Have a great day.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
12:08 pm
Getalife….actually no, the worst president in history (B.O.) is what contributed to the super congress. Great work!
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Please. That made me laugh too hard. You must have missed Bushie’s extraordinary 8 years. Hw would tell you:
“They misunderestimated me.” –Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
amy
August 30th, 2011
12:09 pm
UGA
Your party is in your head
snoqualmiefalls
August 30th, 2011
12:10 pm
No folks I don’t want clean air, clean water, no regulation of our food and on and on… Nope, we don’t need any regulations, just like Governor Goodhair suggests in his latest book.
What I like to tell people of this mindset? Move to Somolia… they have NO regulations, No laws and NO taxes… It’s a TeaParty wet dream!
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:10 pm
UGA 1999, over at the Children’s Table, aka The Bookman Blog, we learned early on that you are wasting your time trying to get through to what little mind getaclue still has.
If you just ignore it, it’ll leave.
Otherwise, you’re just feeding the troll.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:15 pm
Annnnnnnd, thanks for playing the irrationality card, snoqualmiefalls.
Knew you could do it.
snoqualmiefalls
August 30th, 2011
12:17 pm
No more irrational than your typical Teahadist.
Darwin
August 30th, 2011
12:19 pm
What exactly is “overregulation?” Is that like “overpaid?”
roughrider
August 30th, 2011
12:22 pm
When Boehner and his cronies take a pay, benefit and staff cut, I will listen to his rhetoric.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:26 pm
“No more irrational than your typical Teahadist.”
Really?
Find me a national “Teahadist” that has called for the ending of all government regulations.
Just one.
JDW
August 30th, 2011
12:30 pm
@UGA1999…”Can someone please tell me what Obama has done in his tenure that has helped with jobs and stimulated the economy…..come on guys, just one thing.”
Improved monthly job creation performance from a net loss of 598,000 jobs in January of 2009 to a net positive of 117,000 last month. That would be a monthly improvement of 715,000 jobs. Any more “intelligent” questions?
Filter
August 30th, 2011
12:33 pm
This is not surprising. It’s amazing to me how people on the right want to act as if they are all such independent thinkers, dealing in reasoned original thought.
And yet you hear pretty much nothing about an issue until one day “bang” it’s everywhere. On the lips of Boortz, Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Boehner, Perry, etc., all at the same time saying the same thing, over and over and over and over………
Remember the NPR deal? No one makes more than a passing reference to it until one day the right decides it will be its latest distraction and then it’s all anyone is talking about.
I’ve got no problem with talking points or marching orders but for God’s sake just admit it. Your followers already buy everything you say and most of the rest of us see right through this charade.
Media bias indeed,
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:40 pm
ug,
I asked you a simple question you would not answer.
If you cons want to debate the facts.
Bring it.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
12:42 pm
Filter, why is your diatribe, however wrongly it is asserted, limited to just “the right”?
And as to media bias, well . . .
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
btw, his study received NO outside funding.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
August 30th, 2011
12:50 pm
This focus on over-regulation seems counterproductive. Everyone knows companies are moving jobs offshore in search of MORE regulation. The Idiot Messiah is working overtime to fill the demand for more regulation here at home.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:52 pm
I think his report is full of cuts.
When was the last time they did a regulations report?
williebkind
August 30th, 2011
12:59 pm
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:40 pm
“If you cons want to debate the facts.”
Ok but you will have to define “facts” before we begin! I dont think it has variant definitons but I know liberals have a different educated indoctinated source of what “is” is.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
12:59 pm
“Adios mofo’s” Perry
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:01 pm
Here’s why the President’s regulations review will fail.
It is all being done INTERNALLY, with no business leaders involved. When you have the people whose very employment rests with the regulations they create / maintain, you have the fix guarding the hen house.
Yet another example of a lack of leadership and common-sense from this very clueless President.
jd
August 30th, 2011
1:01 pm
The history of de-regulation shows that after de-regulation come abuses and economic turmoil and higher prices — See Carter – Airline Dereg, Reagan – S&L De-reg, Junk bond de-reg and 1987 market crash, Energy de-reg – Enron, Nat Gas price hikes,, banking de-reg – mortgage fraud, derivatives, and 2008 Great recession…
snoqualmiefalls
August 30th, 2011
1:03 pm
Check out Rick Perry’s new book, where he advocates a suspension of regulations that are on the books.
As far as irrationality goes via the Tea Party, let us begin.. the President is not a christian, the President has Jews in the White house, the Presdient has the mind set of an African influenced by imperialism, the President is a socialist, the President is a communist, the President is a fascist, the President cannot possibly understand White American politics coming from his back round… got irrationality? why it’s right here in River City with the Tea Party.
BTW I have been invited to the old Confederacy, will be arriving soon… I look forward to the trip, I look forward to CRAZY that is known as South Carolina… too small for a country, too large for an insitution for the insane.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
1:04 pm
This focus on over-regulation seems counterproductive. Everyone knows companies are moving jobs offshore in search of even lower wages. The Teahadists and Contards is working overtime to make their base think they are doing something.
Charles
August 30th, 2011
1:05 pm
So a woman isn’t allow to decide what to do with her body; children are required to have schooling up to a certain age; and corporations can give as much as they want to candidates now, but heaven forbid we impose any regulations on businesses who have already proven they can’t be trusted to do the right thing without them.
Lil Bushie Bailout (Revised Upward)
August 30th, 2011
1:08 pm
Here’s why the President’s regulations review will fail.
It is all being done INTERNALLY, with no business leaders involved. When you have the people whose very employment rests with the regulations they create / maintain, you have the fix guarding the hen house.
Yet another example of a lack of leadership and common-sense from this very clueless President.
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Turn off Fox, Limbore, and Boar for a second, contard. Our President Obama is meeting with business leaders including Scott Davis from UPS. What did Scott say? Did he say that it was all Obama’s fault? Did he say regulations were stalling them investing their $5.6 billion? Why spoil the fun? Check out the Biz Beat for the answer, Contards.
Charles
August 30th, 2011
1:10 pm
A perfect example of how great dereg has worked right in Georgia is the deregulation of the natural gas industry in 1998. Tell me that your bills are cheaper, simpler to read, and that you get better customer service now that there are 10 gas marketers instead of just one.
Filter
August 30th, 2011
1:11 pm
Tiberious,
I know you think you’re the smartest guy in the room (or as you so arrogantly say “The Adult Table) so I’ll do my best to aspire to your lofty position.
I spend most of my work time on the road and I pretty much loathe music radio so I spend most of my time flipping talk radio stations. EVERY talk radio station I tune, no matter who the host may be says the same thing. You can’t escape the right wing sound machine. I put up with it mostly to stay on top of traffic (particularly important to me) and news but I find it amazing that as soon as one starts talking about something all of them start. It’s a 24 hour nonstop bash Obama fest and anyone who would vote for him is either stupid, misinformed or on the take. No one could possibly actually believe in the guy because…well you know…”everybody” knows he’s a ___________ (insert Marxist, idiot, Obozo, etc.)
As for media bias, go ahead and hang onto all the studies you want, I’m not going to spend the precious little time I have debating whether it exists. But from this POV it’s more about the victim mentality of the right than anything else.
War on Christmas anyone?
JDW
August 30th, 2011
1:12 pm
@Tiberus…”It is all being done INTERNALLY, with no business leaders involved. When you have the people whose very employment rests with the regulations they create / maintain, you have the fix guarding the hen house.”
Actually not true. This particular point is one of the items on the plate of Immelt and his team.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:12 pm
snoqualmiefalls, thanks for failing at your assigned task. Lots of rhetoric, but no proof whatsoever.
“Suspension” of regulations? Sorry, but that is not elimination, and it’s frankly a very smart idea (came up with that about 2 years ago myself) as a means of testing the theory of whether regulations are getting in the way on the economy.
Your other crap?
Which national “Teahadist” made any of those claims? Remember, your side has 9/11 truthers and “Bush stole the election” extremists as well.
Just Saying..
August 30th, 2011
1:13 pm
Riddle me this, please: Christian evangelicals believe God created this earth. The majority of these evangelicals are Republican. Republicans seem willing to support any effort that results in fouling/trashing God’s earth, as opposed to efforts to preserve/care for God’s earth. I really don’t get it. Seriously.
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August 30th, 2011
1:15 pm
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Jerome Horwitz
August 30th, 2011
1:18 pm
Have the solution to the debt crisis – eliminate the EPA and all enviromental regulations and withing the next 50 years the planet will be dead. End of problem. End of grandchildren.
Anyone who thinks business will act in the best interests of society should be banished to Love Canal. The nice chemical dump created by our friens at Union Carbide where a nice developer built some nice houses. Don’t think about the cancer cluster it created.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:21 pm
“Actually not true. This particular point is one of the items on the plate of Immelt and his team.”
Really, JDW?
Find Immelt or his Council in the loop on this effort:
“The President’s Executive Order on Improving and Streamlining Regulation by Independent Regulatory Agencies
July 11, 2011 at 06:28 PM EDT
Today, President Obama took the next step in his ambitious and unprecedentedly open process for streamlining, improving, and eliminating regulations – by issuing a new Executive Order asking the independent regulatory agencies, including the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, to take new steps to ensure smart, cost-effective regulations, designed to promote economic growth and job creation.
In a historic initiative, the President has requested the independent agencies to produce plans to reassess and to streamline their existing regulations, and to disclose those plans for public scrutiny. In addition, the President has asked the independent agencies to follow the cost-saving, burden-reducing principles in his January Executive Order on improving regulation.”
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:23 pm
Annnnnnd, Just Sayin and Jerome, thanks for playing the irrational card this afternoon.
I needed the entertainment.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:25 pm
“As for media bias, go ahead and hang onto all the studies you want, I’m not going to spend the precious little time I have debating whether it exists, because I’ve been caught at making a fool of myself now that actual proof exists”.
Fixed your typo, Filter.
Just Saying..
August 30th, 2011
1:26 pm
Tiberius @ 1:23 pm:
Don’t get out much?
JDW
August 30th, 2011
1:29 pm
@Tiberius…then you call Immelt and tell him, because I sat through his presentation a couple of weeks ago where he went into some detail about this very point.
hatorade drinkers
August 30th, 2011
1:30 pm
I thought I was dumb, until I read Kyle’s daily blogs. I gladly hand over the title Kyle.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:36 pm
Yeah, someone who sits on an AJC columnists blog most of the day sat through a Jeff Imment presentation.
I’m buying that . . .
JDW
August 30th, 2011
1:38 pm
Buy what you want…some of us do get out and around.
Man Behind the Curtain
August 30th, 2011
1:41 pm
Scientists have found elevated levels of mercury in every watershed in Georgia. This is unacceptable. We need more regulations, and fewer loopholes, in order to put a stop to this. Installing required scrubbers in power plants creates jobs. Deregulation just maintains the bottom line.
Jerome Horwitz
August 30th, 2011
1:43 pm
And Tiberious – Thanks for playing the Moron card today.
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
August 30th, 2011
1:52 pm
Jerome and Just Sayin, as soon as you provide on shred of proof that Republicans / conservatives / Christians want to eliminate all regulations and foul the earth, come back here and provide the facts.
Otherwise, your irrational and inane comments are useless in intelligent discussion.
Filter
August 30th, 2011
1:54 pm
Tiberious,
My post needed no editing, unless it was done by an arrogant a@# like yourself. My point is that I am not going to spend my time arguing with you about your need for victimization. Your very name plays the victim card by assuming that your pronouncements are so deep, so incisive, so profound that they make you a lightning rod for hate. Media bias, much like the war on Christmas and all the other wedge issues the right like to bandy about exists, but mostly in the mind of those with a predilection for victimization or those who know that casting oneself as a victim will score political points.
Grow up and realize that there are those that disagree with you and that do have valid ideas that are contrary to your world view. Not parsing whether they are right or wrong, just that they are valid, particularly when it comes to opinion.
williebkind
August 30th, 2011
1:54 pm
It all about government control, the government can doi it better, the government can protect trees liberals spiked, the government know how to bring in new energy sources after starving an oil based enconomy for thirty years, the government can clean the air, the government can clean the water (where was the government during the gulf spill), and the government knows what rights and religiions you can have.
williebkind
August 30th, 2011
1:55 pm
Obama knows government!!
Filter
August 30th, 2011
1:55 pm
One other thing.
You like to boast about this being the “Adult Table” but then you pull the childish ploy of editing someone’s words to say what you would have them say.
Nice.