CEI released a new report today about the REINS Act, which would require Congress to vote on all new executive branch regulations costing more than $100 million per year. If you prefer a shorter version, Investor’s Business Daily also ran my op-ed about it today:
President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald J. Trump have
something important in common. They both have a chance to help America's
job creators out from under the crushing regulatory burden imposed by
the federal government. First up, before President Obama leaves office,
the Senate should pass the Regulations from the Executive in Need of
Scrutiny (REINS) Act and send it to the president to sign.
Failing that, of course, the next Congress should work with
President-elect Trump to pass REINS and other regulatory reforms. Read more here...2. FreedomWorks to Congress: Pass a Short-Term Continuing Resolution - by Adam Brandon
The results of the presidential election have changed the circumstances surrounding a lame-duck session. House and Senate leadership are deliberating whether they will pass a short- or long-term continuing resolution or a costly, pork-filled omnibus spending bill. “There is no need for a debate on which direction to go,” Brandon said. “Congress should pass a short-term continuing resolution as quickly as possible and adjourn.”
“With our country facing anemic economic growth, the incoming administration and Congress should not be hamstrung by bad deals made by the previous one. On November 8, the American people made their voice heard, and they voted for a change in direction. Now it falls on Republican leaders in the House and Senate to listen to the electorate and enact the bold, conservative economic reforms our country so desperately needs.” Read more here...
3. Profs, Students Want UVA President to Stop Quoting Jefferson - via Reason
Thomas Jefferson isn't just a founding father of the United States—he's the founding father of the University of Virginia. But some UVA professors and students wish the administration would stop reminding them. Nearly 500 members of campus signed a letter to UVA President Teresa Sullivan criticizing her for continuously including Jefferson quotes in emails—particularly in her post-election message to campus. Read more here...
4. Three Climate Change Policy Executive Orders the President-Elect Should Repeal - via Competitive Enterprise Institute
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to “cancel immediately” all of President Obama’s “illegal and overreaching executive orders,” and he strongly opposes Obama’s climate agenda. Will Obama’s climate policy executive orders be among the first on Trump’s chopping block? Here are three prime targets for repeal, beginning with the most recent. Read more here...
5. Justice Reform Is Still Alive and Well After Trump Election - by Holly Harris via The Hill
“If you succeed, then the country succeeds,” President Barack Obama told his soon-to-be successor, President-elect Donald Trump, and the American people during an Oval Office photo-op on Nov. 10, two days after President-elect Trump won the 2016 presidential election. The two men met at the White House to begin coordinating details of the transition between administrations a day after Obama noted that his staff would extend to Trump the same courteous and respectful assistance that they had been given eight years earlier by then-President George W. Bush’s team.
Like the nation itself, which split its total vote almost evenly between President-elect Trump and rival Secretary Hillary Clinton, the eight member organizations of the U.S. Justice Action Network had divergent reactions to the outcome. But even as some of our partners are happy and some disappointed, the justice-reform mission to which we are all committed remains unchanged. We will all continue working toward our common goal: reforming a badly broken justice system that incarcerates too many Americans at too high a cost, both fiscally and societally. Read more here...
Jason Pye
Communications Director, FreedomWorks
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