Tag: Regulations

The funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education would prevent the Labor Department from enforcing the rule.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House appropriations bill would stop Obama conflicts-of-interest rule

Joseph Lawler · July 12, 2017 9:20 pm

Any honest reading of the Antiquities Act reveals that it was created to protect "landmarks," "structures," and "objects" -- not vast swaths of land. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

Energy and Environment

Zinke gathers 1.2 million comments on plan to shrink Bears Ears, other monuments

John Siciliano · July 11, 2017 6:25 pm

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., saw his efforts to advance right-to-try stall in the Senate last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate confirms Neomi Rao to lead White House office overseeing regulations

Josh Siegel · July 11, 2017 12:21 am

It is a position created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law to aid with the Fed's expanded bank oversight responsibilities, but was never filled. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Trump officially nominates Randal Quarles for Fed bank regulator

Joseph Lawler · July 10, 2017 11:31 pm

Because drones in the U.S. are restricted in where and when they can fly — only during daytime and not above people, for example — the drone industry is limited in the technology's new uses.

Why the drone industry actually wants more regulation

Melissa Quinn · July 10, 2017 4:01 am

Federal regulations can damage the healthcare industry's bottom line in many ways. They limit the use and nature of telemedicine. Small, rural hospitals have struggled to achieve the efficiencies Obamacare demanded from them.

Obamacare wounds doctor-owned hospitals

Kimberly Leonard · July 10, 2017 4:01 am

Mortgage finance practices expanded home ownership and spread risk among a host of new players — but also may have duped borrowers and investors who supplied cash to fuel a housing boom that turned bust. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Safeguards against another subprime crisis changed how banks do business

Joseph Lawler · July 10, 2017 4:01 am

President vows to cut "industry-killing" environmental regulations and "job-crushing" taxes as automaker opens new U.S. headquarters. (AP Photo/James Crisp, File)

Trump tells Toyota he wants America to be ‘car capital’ of the world again

John Siciliano · July 7, 2017 5:19 pm

President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, arrive at the Treasury Department in Washington, Friday, April 21, 2017, where the president was to sign an executive order to review tax regulations set last year by his predecessor, as well as two memos to potentially reconsider major elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms passed in the wake of the Great Recession. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Washington Secrets

Congress joins Trump war on regs, cuts a year’s worth in one week

Paul Bedard · July 6, 2017 11:10 am

Energy and Environment

Qatar blockade underscores America’s world opportunity in natural gas

James Marks · July 1, 2017 4:01 am

Charlie Gard was born in October with encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, or MDDS. It has left him crippled and with brain damage. He depends on a ventilator to keep him alive. (Family handout/PA Wire)

A baby is condemned to death by socialized medicine

Washington Examiner · June 30, 2017 4:01 am

The FCC's power grab switching ISPs to Title II created a loophole in privacy enforcement. (iStock)

Without Title II, is the Internet the new ‘Wild West’?

Daniel Oglesby · June 29, 2017 4:01 am