Tag: Federalism

President Obama signs the Medicare Access CHIP Reauthorization Act 2015 on April 16, 2015 in Washington. (Photo by Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images)

Choke: 1,568 new regs, 38,000 Federal Register pages already this year

Paul Bedard · July 1, 2015 4:12 pm

The EPA is proposing a top-down "Federal Implementation Plan" on states it determines are not sufficiently implementing the Obama administration's so-called Clean Power Plan. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

Obama’s EPA and the death of federalism

Mike Duncan · March 11, 2015 1:35 pm

Nationwide, state governments owe $1.1 trillion in debt, or $3,597 per person.

Beltway Confidential

How much debt does your state have?

Jason Russell · February 17, 2015 6:29 pm

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A return to minimum-wage federalism

Trent England · February 3, 2015 10:00 am

Momentum is building for reform of federal education policy as the new session of Congress begins. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

GOP can empower states by reforming No Child Left Behind

Jason Russell · January 7, 2015 6:43 pm

Beltway Confidential

Geographic diversity of fast food protests demonstrates futility of a federal minimum wage

Jason Russell · December 4, 2014 9:36 pm

Yuck: 83% of nation’s schools report more lunches dumped by kids

Washington Secrets

Yuck: 83% of nation’s schools report more lunches dumped by kids

Paul Bedard · October 13, 2014 6:03 pm

States enraged by an Obamacare provision denying them subsidies unless they created insurance exchanges shouldnât have been surprised. Congress routinely uses the power of the purse to twist statesâ arms until they submit. (iStock Image)

The time may be right to salvage states rights

Sean Lengell · September 15, 2014 9:00 am

In Federalist No. 10, James Madison explained why the new union would be different from a "pure democracy." (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Federalism and the Founders

Philip Klein · August 18, 2014 6:17 pm

From top right: James Madison, fourth president and an author of the Federalist Papers (Image via iStock); bottom left, U.S. postage stamp honoring Alexander Hamilton, another Federalist Papers author and later first secretary of the Treasury (iStock); John Jay, another of the Federalist authors and later first chief justice of the U.S., in 1794 portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart (portrait hangs in National Gallery of Art; Image via Wikimedia Commons). Background Image: Title page of The Federalist, Volume 1, as published by John Tiebout in 1799 (Image via Library of Congress). (Collage: Washington Examiner)

Washington is divided because it has abandoned federalism

Philip Klein · August 14, 2014 10:00 pm

A Ben & Jerry's statement opposing GMOs includes the qualification "Now, we aren't scientists, we just make ice cream" -- that much is apparent. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Ben & Jerry’s socialist, anti-GMO cofounder inadvertently makes the case for federalism

Blake Seitz · July 20, 2014 4:09 pm

Two federal judges acting within 24 hours of each other last Thursday and Friday served notice on the IRS that it's time to pay up. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

Is the IRS scandal the ultimate test of the Constitution’s checks and balances?

Mark Tapscott · July 14, 2014 12:36 pm