The REINS Act – I’ve written about it before. Several times, in point of fact.
Those of us living in the 1st District are aware of this legislation, as Congressman Wittman has been talking about and promoting it since Autumn of 2014. I reached out to Congressmen Brat and Wittman this evening, quite unconscious that there are festivities taking place in Washington D.C. throughout the weekend. However, it is precisely those festivities that makes the possibility of the REINS Act (H.R.26) so important. We finally have a President willing to sign it.
Why is the REINS Act so important?
This bill revises provisions relating to congressional review of agency rulemaking. A federal agency promulgating a rule must publish information about the rule in the Federal Register and include in its report to Congress and to the Government Accountability Office: (1) a classification of the rule as a major or nonmajor rule, and (2) a copy of the cost-benefit analysis of the rule that includes an analysis of any jobs added or lost.
A “major rule” is any rule that the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget finds results in: (1) an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; (2) a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, government agencies, or geographic regions; or (3) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises.
A joint resolution of approval must be enacted within 70 session days or legislative days after the agency proposing a major rule submits its report on such rule to Congress in order for the rule to take effect. A major rule may take effect for 90 days without such approval if the President determines it is necessary because of an imminent threat to health or safety or other emergency, for the enforcement of criminal laws, for national security, or to implement an international trade agreement.
The bill sets forth the congressional approval procedure for major rules and the congressional disapproval procedure for nonmajor rules.
A joint resolution addressing a report classifying a rule as a major rule must be introduced within three legislative days in the House of Representative and three session days in the Senate. The bill prohibits any amendments to, and provides for expedited consideration of, such a joint resolution.
A court may review whether an agency has completed the necessary requirements under this bill for a rule to take effect. The bill limits the effect of a joint resolution of approval of a major rule.
The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to provide that any congressional approval procedure set forth in this bill affecting budget authority, outlays, or receipts shall be assumed to be effective unless it is not approved in accordance with this bill.
Regardless what faction within the Republican Party you may fall into, this is legislation that will make your life better. Last week I listened to Denver Riggleman speak on the costs and detriments of the regulations pouring out of Richmond; and as awful as they are, the regulations pouring out of Washington D.C. are worse. Liberals and Corporatists use regulations to aid their interests and to destroy small business, to destroy competition through increased overhead, and to slap shackles on capitalism.
I have reached out to my friends on social media, asking them to reach out to folk across the country with Republican Senators, demanding them to take this up and push this through the Senate. 100% of Democrats will oppose this legislation. Every Republican that fails to vote for it will fail to do so for the same reasons that Democrats oppose it. Our Legislature has, for decades, tried to avoid responsibility for the laws levied against us. They have turned over this responsibility to the Bureaucracy, which instead of passing laws passes “regulations”.
The REINS Act is our only opportunity to put the breaks on out of control government. Our Republican friends in Washington D.C. do not seem serious about providing us with free market solutions to health care in the coming years; and I fear there is little that we can do to prevent what they do have in store. However, the REINS Act will deprive Republicans of next to nothing, and will instead allow them to go on record voting against oppressive regulations whenever they are brought before Congress.
Senator Rand Paul pointed out that this new Republican Budget will add over 9 Trillion Dollars to the federal debt and I take the Senator at his word. The REINS Act could alleviate much of the harm this new “republican” budget has in store. It’s not taxes and debt that prevent small and large businesses from flourishing. It’s regulations. The REINS Act will require Congressional approval for all regulations threatening even the slightest impact on the national economy.
Please, call your friends and family living in States with Republican Senators and ask them to ask their Senators to Support the REINS Act.
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Democrats are trying to make hay of the fact that the swamp didn’t show up for Trump’s inauguration. Trump supporters should wear that like a badge of honor, that his supporters are in poor, red states, work for a living, and don’t have time or money to stand around in Washington DC on a Friday afternoon. Sure Obama’s supporters came out, because they’re rich, and a lot of them could catch the subway from their homes to his inauguration.
I’m confused. In his inaugural rant Trump says the secret to a strong economy is buy American and make it in America. Yet, EVERYTHING with the Trump brand is made in China – suits, ties, Ivanka’s clothing line, all the furnishings and bedding in his hotels . . .
Sound like just another lying republican.
As I’m sitting here watching the inauguration I have a lot of feelings, pride, excitement, trepidation, etc, but the most unexpected feeling I have is simply a feeling of relief.
Why relief ?
Because the SJW movement has been overthrown.
For eight long years it has been fashionable to hate conservatives, and the outgoing President encouraged it at every turn. As far back as the rise of the TEA party conservatives have been labeled as being crazy, stupid, etc, and it has been open season on conservatives, no label too harsh, no admonishment too reckless, nothing could be said that went too far. Comedians, politicians, even rock and rollers have done everything they could to malign conservatives, and it was all possible because Democrats had won an overwhelming electoral victory, they truly believed that the world had changed, and that they were finally going to be in charge of the country for the next 100 years. There was actual talk of conservatives never winning the Presidency again, especially after Obama won for a second term, and SJW’s went wild.
The SJW movement has been toxic to intellectual debate, to tolerance, and to freedom. Colleges have routinely ban words they don’t like as “hate speech”, refused to allow conservative speakers on campus, conservatives have been mocked in popular culture, and all that has now been overthrown. I do not agree with a lot of Trump’s policies, I’m very confident he is going to do some things I am very opposed to, but at least he has demonstrated that conservatives can win on their own terms, and he has reinvigorated conservatives by teaching them once again that the can win without playing Democrat’s games, that unapologetic conservative populism is viable. That, more than anything, has made Democrats seethe, because they understand on some fundamental level that their old shaming, identity politics, and strategies of banning opinions they don’t like and destroying individuals to win their arguments have been dealt a mortal blow and that they will never be able to put their faith in them again. They understand that they relied on the perception that they spoke for the people, and the populism of Trump, and before him the TEA party have shattered their delusions.
We leave an era that was ruled by SJW tyranny, buoyed by a President who had little empathy for a huge segment of the population that he was elected to lead. You can already see the changes happening, before Trump was elected those who hate conservatives were as loud as they had ever been, encouraged by polls showing that Trump could never win we got to see their hatred in all its glory, a spectacle of intolerance. They mocked and ridiculed conservatives, and walked around with the smug self-satisfaction that they were the sole arbiters of morality, all the while being blind to the opinions of a huge part of the population that they had once loathed, and had finally forgotten.
People across this country have handed down an epic smack down to SJW’s everywhere, and SJW’s know it, they feel it in their bones, that’s why they simply cannot accept that Trump is now President. They know they went too far, and that they no longer have the power they had. Now their smugness is revealed for arrogance, their self-satisfaction for the tyranny that it always was, and their high pitched wails of moral indignation are finally revealed as nothing but elitism.
Conservatives now rule this country at every level, from county boards to state legislatures, governor’s mansions to Congress and the Presidency, and conservatives are in no mood to forgive and forget. The way forward for every Trump executive order was paved by Obama, the way for every partisan bill was paved by Democrats in Congress and their ACA law, the way for every refusal to cooperate, come together, or moderate was paved by a decade of Progressive arrogance and intolerance.
So skip the Presidential inauguration if you want, play your games, watch from the sidelines, and scream and wail, do whatever you want SJW’s, because the rest of America has been innoculated. The tyranny of your movement in all of its forms, from lecturing professors to protests on city streets has been overthrown. You are not the arbiters of morality in this country, and you are not in charge anymore, and we love your salty tears.
Let me guess: Your ex-wife got a huge divorce settlement.
Umm, story of your life ? wtf lol.
someone forgot the whole, “let’s impede all progress and block anything that black guy tries to do” strategy of the GOP?
Rooty-Tooty: Keeping it classy.
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani began an inauguration lunch Thursday with an off-color sex joke about a 9/11 firefighter.
The close advisor to Donald Trump was speaking at the Four Seasons in Washington for a $350 per plate lunch when he told a story about a ride he took with former President George W. Bush just days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, The Intercept reported.
“In the same car with me was my fire commissioner, Tom Van Essen,” Giuliani told the crowd. “And Tom had lost what turned out to be 343 firefighters. And President Bush recognized him from seeing him on television the prior two days. And he leaned over to Tom, grabbed his arm, and said to him, ‘Tom, I’m so sorry. How are things going?’ Tom
looked at him and said, ‘Much better now. My wife came home last night and I got lucky.’”
Giuliani went on to call the joke “locker room talk,” the familiar phrase Trump used to describe his comment that he can “grab ’em by the p*ssy” because he’s a celebrity.
“President Bush remembered that so well that when he saw Tom three weeks later at a firehouse dinner, he came up to him and said, ‘Tom, are you still getting lucky?’ And Tom said, ‘No, it’s worn out,’” Giuliani closed.
Only a republican would think this is appropriate conversation.
This stupid post has nothing to do with the topic of the article, dung head.
Obama with his phone and pen and enacting sweeping things like immigrant amnesty which didn’t even follow the rule making authority procedures for regulations: that is what Brody is talking about.
Take your stupid post…
You mean like the time Ronnie Raygun used an executive order to make 2 million illegals legal?
That was a law passed within the context of the Constitutional system, crap for brains. It as a crap law, but Reagan didn’t use a Memo to institute it like Obama did.
If the new Government makes a serious dent in the Federal workforce, might we see Va go Republican again, I hope?
“New government”? What, are we getting all new lobbyists? I hadn’t heard that one.
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Keep Clinton out of the White House ? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e405bf319587a907a669b29d1f1aa481bb5b2d10d86ab713fde15a2f365beacd.jpg
I hope you rightwingers are proud of the evil you have inflicted on this nation. .
Late tonight, the New York Times reported that anonymous intelligence sources are confirming they’ve intercepted communications and financial transactions from Russia which may link Trump associates to Russian officials.
Paul Manafort is a focus, as is Carter Page and Roger Stone.
The counterintelligence investigation centers at least in part on the business dealings that some of the president-elect’s past and present advisers have had with Russia. Mr. Manafort has done business in Ukraine and Russia. Some of his contacts there were under surveillance by the National Security Agency for suspected links to Russia’s Federal Security Service, one of the officials said.
Mr. Manafort is among at least three Trump campaign advisers whose possible links to Russia are under scrutiny. Two others are Carter Page,a businessman and former foreign policy adviser to the campaign, and Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative.
This may be the most chilling part of the entire report — the reasons why they’re leaking it now:
Representatives of the agencies involved declined to comment. Of the half-dozen current and former officials who confirmed the existence of the investigations, some said they were providing information because they feared the new administration would obstruct their efforts. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the cases.
Update: AP is also reporting that one of the hackers wanted in connection with the DNC hack has been arrested in Spain.
Spanish officials say a Russian computer programmer wanted by the United States on hacking allegations has been jailed while a decision is made on whether to extradite him.
The National Court said Thursday that Stanislav Lisov, 31, was jailed Jan. 13 after Civil Guard police arrested him at Barcelona airport on an FBI warrant issued though Interpol.
The court said a Madrid judge questioned him by videoconference over charges of criminal conspiracy in connection with electronic and computer fraud for which he is wanted by the U.S. It said he was ordered jailed because of the seriousness of the offenses and the risk of him fleeing justice as he had done previously in the United States.
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By the way, you write: “The REINS Act is our only opportunity to put the breaks on out of control government.”
I think you meant “put the BRAKES on . . . “
Trump train got no brakes!
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Ha, ha, ha, do you take the Senator at his word regarding the repeal of Obamacare?
To get the Reins Act, somebody needs to throw some money at it for the lobby to pass out to the whores, opps, I meant congress….
RR III: Goddam, boy, but you do have a way with words.
That is my job site language.
We laugh at the term political correctness.
Should we coin the phrase ;
Legislative Prostitute?
In our quest to drain the swamp
we must remember we can drain
the water , the gators will leave the snapping turtles will migrate upstream yet the leaches will ly under the drying up pond scum
only to return to suck out the life that the waters of prosperity will bring.
It’s hard to underestimate the reach this legislation can have on keeping the government under control. We’d be looking at a significantly different government today if we’d had it in place 20 years ago.