Tag: Regulations

Cleaner Adam Gawronski polishes the bronze monument of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in downtown Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Washington Secrets

Trump delivering biggest cut in regulations since Reagan

Paul Bedard · June 9, 2017 12:00 pm

Congressional Republicans made clear that they want to curb the power and discretion of the consumer bureau, created in 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The GOP’s financial target: Reining in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2017 10:59 pm

Rep. Phil Roe, a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, said the Labor Department's fiduciary rule "would make it harder for low- and middle-income families to save for retirement." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans move to undo Obama financial advisers rule

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2017 5:24 pm

Thanks to the last-minute approval of Norwegian Air International's foreign carrier permit by the Obama administration, the American airline industry now faces a threat very similar to the one responsible for destroying the once-mighty U.S. maritime shipping industry. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Airline jobs threatened by carriers fleeing regulation after late Obama move

Dan Carey · June 7, 2017 4:01 am

President Donald Trump holds up a signed Executive Order in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 28, 2017, directing the Interior Department to begin review of restrictive drilling policies for the outer-continental shelf. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez)

Washington Secrets

Historic: 90% cut in new regs, costs slashed to just 0.12% of Obama’s

Paul Bedard · June 6, 2017 1:21 pm

Johnson & Johnson’s bill to squash competition in the contact lens market

Brian McNicoll · June 6, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump has appointed Joseph Otting to lead the the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is housed within the Treasury. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump to name former banker Joseph Otting to top regulatory post

Joseph Lawler · June 6, 2017 1:17 am

Rolling Back the Obama Rules

Tony Mecia · June 2, 2017 7:15 am

The Paris agreement is a big flashy set of empty promises. (Wikipedia Commons)

Judgment of Paris — walk away from it

Washington Examiner · June 1, 2017 4:01 am

Seven of the 10 years that saw the most pages published in the Federal Register were during Obama's tenure. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

New rules surged in Obama’s last year to 3,853, most pages in Federal Register ever

Joseph Lawler · May 31, 2017 9:00 am

A Real Side-Splitter

The Scrapbook · May 26, 2017 6:30 am

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an estimated 88,000 people die from alcohol-related causes annually, which makes alcohol the fourth-leading preventable cause of death in the United States.

Alcohol-related deaths are rising. Will new state rules help?

Kimberly Leonard · May 22, 2017 4:03 am