The Republican-led US House of Representatives on Wednesday killed two Obama-era rules, one intended to root out corruption in the extraction sector and one aimed at reducing stream pollution.
Required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, the Securities and Exchange Commission's "extraction rule" was approved this summer to require oil, gas, mining and other companies to publicly state the taxes and other fees they pay to governments. Republicans say the requirement is burdensome and costly for energy companies, and also that it duplicates other long-standing regulations.
The stream buffer rule is intended to lessen the amount of waste from mountain-top removal coal mining deposited in local waterways. Republican lawmakers, though, say it is hurting coal jobs by placing unworkable limits on the industry.
The Republican-dominated Senate is expected to quickly take up killing both regulations and then send the resolutions to President Donald Trump to sign. The real war on terror
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The regulatory leviathan is the #1 threat to a vibrant economy. It is the #1 reason that small business formation is at its lowest point since the Constitution was ratified.
It is also the #1 reason that the publicly employed are making more money, on average, than private ones, and that they have come to see themselves as the private sector's rulers rahter than its servants.
Kill the leviathan, and many things become right again in the U.S.
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....say it is hurting coal jobs by placing unworkable limits on the industry.
But that was the Gov't intent. Didn't Obama tell us in 2008 that he would make coal mining too onerous and expensive to pursue ?
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The stream buffer rule is intended to lessen the amount of waste from mountain-top removal coal mining deposited in local waterways.
Another way to reduce this sort of pollution would be to prevent hacks at the EPA from going into closed mines with backhoes and ripping up the retainer walls.
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There isn't much mountaintop coal mining going on these days. The current regulations have been adequate in pollution control. The opposition, and this article, make it sound like the coal mining companies are literally dumping coal waste into streams. It ain't happening. I live in coal country. Fearmongers all.
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[Free Beacon] The two Republicans who broke ranks with their party and announced they would vote against education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos have received thousands of dollars from the nation's largest teachers union.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) and Susan Collins (R., Maine) have each benefited from contributions from the National Education Association. Collins received $2,000 from the union in 2002 and 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Murkowski, meanwhile, has received $23,500.
The NEA represents 3 million members, making it the wealthiest and most influential union in the country. The NEA, along with other labor groups like the American Federation of Teachers, has waged a fierce campaign against DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist and school choice activist.
Teachers unions donate almost exclusively to Democrats. The NEA contributed $2.3 million to Democratic candidates in 2016, while Republican nominees received $350,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The top beneficiaries of union largesse have already voted against DeVos' nomination at the committee level. The union donated $740,000 to the 11 Democratic members of that committee--all 11 attempted to prevent the nomination from reaching the Senate floor.
Murkowski received a 100 percent rating on a 2012 NEA Report Card, while Collins received a 75 percent rating--the only Republicans to earn marks above 50 percent from the group. Each senator has earned straight-A marks from the union since 2014.
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Up and coming black leaders could make their bones by freeing their people from the tyranny (dare I say slavery?) of a rotten education. But it's a bold move to go against the NEA and their money. Paging Dr. Ben Carson.
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I'm involved with a black group trying to set up a charter school, and they to a man (and woman) love the idea of charter schools.
Why do these racist ladies hate black people and want their children confined in failing public schools with no chance to choose a better future for their children
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Collins received $2,000 from the union in 2002 and 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Murkowski, meanwhile, has received $23,500
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Best suggestion I've seen - notify Congress that there will not be any other nominations for this position. They can either confirm DeVos, or prepare to wind up DOE.
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Hardball time. The democrats are not going to like any of Trump's nominees so he might as well push these nominees through even it means passing with only 51 votes.
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[Free Beacon] The two Republicans who broke ranks with their party and announced they would vote against education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos have received thousands of dollars from the nation's largest teachers union.
