Tag: Regulations

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Beltway Confidential

Tom Coburn: ‘Washington is hurting this country’

Philip Klein · June 11, 2015 4:01 am

Look for more regulations from Obama as he finishes his second term. AP Photo

Watchdog: Obama adds $110B in regs, readies final ‘rush’ of more costly rules

Paul Bedard · June 10, 2015 10:30 am

Protesters with Occupy Congress hold up a signs in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg)

Wall Street bears brunt of Dem attacks

Joseph Lawler · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

Under Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency has adopted new interpretations of the Clear Air Act to justify new rules.Â (Getty images)

Attorneys general are the first line of defense

Hugh Hewitt · June 7, 2015 9:00 pm

Watchdog: Obamacare paperwork costs states $880M, 27 million worker hours

Paul Bedard · June 5, 2015 5:43 pm

AP Photo

Report: Obama on path to impose nearly 50% more costly regs than Bush

Paul Bedard · June 3, 2015 1:48 am

President Obama's administration is pursuing a new labor rule that would largely ignore big business and instead target small and medium-sized companies. (AP Photo)

New union-friendly rule from Obama targets small business

Sean Higgins · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

According to data from Vaporin Inc., an e-cig distributor, 90 percent of smokers who turn to e-cigs do so with the intention of quitting smoking. (Getty)

Taxing and regulating e-cigarettes like tobacco is bad public policy

Victor I. Nava · May 22, 2015 9:00 am

Energy and Environment

Watering down our political agenda

Carla Kalogeridis · May 18, 2015 9:00 am

The debate over nuclear power doesn't usually appear on the front pages, but when it does, it tends to be swamped by mythology and fact-free politics.Â (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Where does nuclear power fit in our future?

Jed Babbin · May 18, 2015 9:00 am

Ben Bernanke argued that the Warren-Vitter bill did too much to limit regulators' response to a crisis situation, saying that some of its provisions were "unwise" even if their inclusion was necessary to pass the legislation. (AP Photo)Â

Bernanke takes aim at Elizabeth Warren’s Fed bill

Joseph Lawler · May 15, 2015 5:24 pm

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, to discuss crude oil rail transport legislation. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Senate Dem bill to take shot at federal coal-mining program

Zack Colman · May 13, 2015 6:19 pm