Tag: Regulations

The White House, federal agencies, and Republicans on Capitol Hill have all made significant progress in dismantling the regulatory state during the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Beltway Confidential

The media are missing Trump’s much-needed regulatory relief

Christine Harbin · October 5, 2017 4:29 pm

Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the committeeâs top Democrat, set the tone early when he said he decided to forego custom and refuse to introduce Wehrum, who is a Delaware native. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Democrats attack ‘heart’ of Trump’s EPA nominees during emotional confirmation hearing

Josh Siegel · October 4, 2017 7:49 pm

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that President Trump hopes to pick a Federal Reserve chairman in the next month. Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen's term runs out at the end of January. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

Treasury moves to undo Obama tax rules, including anti-inversions regulation

Joseph Lawler · October 4, 2017 5:28 pm

The FDA sign

Massachusetts bakery fights FDA to keep ‘love’ on ingredient label

Robert King · October 3, 2017 10:12 pm

The EPA said that it is hammering out details with states on implementing the Obama administration's 2015 rule for ozone pollution. (AP Photo/Michael Virtanen, File)

Energy and Environment

EPA says it’s working with states after missing deadline for ozone rule

John Siciliano · October 3, 2017 8:16 pm

In this Sept. 29, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks as he walks to Marine One as he departs the White House in Washington. Trump is aiming to make an end-run around some of President Barack Obama's regulations, which he says circumvented Congress in the first place and cost American businesses and the economy billions of dollars. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Washington Secrets

Trump ahead of Reagan’s record in cutting regulations

Paul Bedard · October 3, 2017 7:16 am

The least Washington can do for an ailing San Juan is to free it from the Jones Act, so that a stricken community can recover faster and move on to a more prosperous future. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Help Puerto Rico recover — kill the Jones Act forever

Washington Examiner · October 1, 2017 4:01 am

The philosophical assumption at the heart of this system of executive overreach is the idea experts are better equipped to parse the minutiae of specific policy questions and are better educated and trained to recognize the correct course of action. Although innocent enough in theory, this assumption fails to account for certain flaws in the mechanism, for problems surrounding both incentives and information. (Kuzma / iStock)

Can freedom survive in the era of the administrative state?

David D'amato · October 1, 2017 4:01 am

Job growth and wage gains won't happen without fixing "a regulatory system that is too inefficient, too complex and too exposed to shifts in the political wind," the officials said. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Business, labor leaders join to ask Congress to roll back regulations

Sean Higgins · September 29, 2017 10:22 pm

The Coalition for Regulatory Innovation was created by the National Association of Manufacturers and other trade groups. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

New industry group launches ahead of Trump’s ‘Cut the Red Tape’ day

John Siciliano · September 29, 2017 5:27 pm

The first state law going after the price of prescription drugs is set to go into effect in Maryland on Sunday, but a judge could still act to suspend the law. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Maryland ‘price gouging’ drug law set to take effect Sunday

Kimberly Leonard · September 28, 2017 7:41 pm

Those liquor licensing laws prop up business at the expense of competitors and consumers. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Buzzkill: Maryland man runs afoul of Pennsylvania liquor laws for selling $750 bottle of Kentucky bourbon

Philip Wegmann · September 28, 2017 4:15 pm