Tag: Regulations

In releasing the bill, Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., said he was "particularly excited about the financial reforms, which slash harmful regulations, streamline outdated agency processes, and rein in the rogue Consumer Financial Protection Bureau." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP spending bill would rein in the CFPB

Joseph Lawler · June 28, 2017 8:51 pm

"We are taking significant action to return power to the states and provide regulatory certainty to our nation's farmers and businesses," said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

EPA begins rolling back Obama’s water rule

John Siciliano · June 27, 2017 6:59 pm

Fed chairwoman touted the rules that the central bank has implemented in the aftermath of the financial crisis and warned against undoing them. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Yellen: I don’t believe there will be another financial crisis in our lifetimes

Joseph Lawler · June 27, 2017 5:55 pm

Protect Internet Freedom, a First Amendment group, is comparing the Federal Communications Commission to Facebook after allegations that the agency censored comments it received from the public. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

The FCC should make a loyalty pledge — to the free market

Charles Sauer · June 27, 2017 5:12 pm

Taken for a Ride in Austin

Mark Hemingway · June 27, 2017 9:15 am

A big problem for President Trump is that much of the federal policy apparatus that directs climate change activity is deeply and structurally embedded in the federal bureaucracy, and has been relatively untouched by the new administration.

Energy and Environment

Trump’s agenda faces climate deep state

John Siciliano · June 25, 2017 6:00 pm

Taken for a Ride

Mark Hemingway · June 23, 2017 1:40 am

Regulators indicated areas in which bipartisan agreement on changing Dodd-Frank rules might be possible for many banks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Contours of regulatory relief push come into shape

Joseph Lawler · June 22, 2017 11:30 pm

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. The two-part tests are conducted annually to examine the health of U.S. banks. In the first round, the simulated crisis included a global recession with unemployment spiking to 10 percent, stock markets collapsing 50 percent, housing prices dropping a quarter, and severe downturns in the U.K., Europe, and Japan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Banks hold up in first round of stress tests

Joseph Lawler · June 22, 2017 8:37 pm

An oil refinery. If foreign vessels were able to ship U.S.-produced oil from Gulf Coast ports to East Coast refineries, it would save U.S. consumers about $1 billion annually. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Beltway Confidential

Meet the Jones Act: A 97-year-old regulatory law that’s costing you money

Mark J. Perry · June 22, 2017 4:01 am

Gov. Jerome Powell is set to recommend easing stress tests for banks and other forms of regulatory relief Thursday in testimony to the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Fed official to suggest regulatory relief for banks

Joseph Lawler · June 21, 2017 9:22 pm

Fenn should totally ignore the health and safety fetishists. (Luis Sanchez Saturno/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Safety hawks are trying to ruin the coolest, all-American treasure hunt there is

Tom Rogan · June 21, 2017 7:02 pm