Posted on 09/29/2011 11:51:50 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
Alaska’s sole congressman says he wants to eliminate every federal regulation issued since 1991 – a proposal that could touch everything from food and drug safety to banking to health care to oil drilling.
Republican Rep. Don Young told the Anchorage Downtown Rotary Club on Tuesday that he drew the line at 20 years ago “because it crossed party lines and also we were prosperous at that time,” The Anchorage Daily News reported. “And no new regulations until they can justify them.”
Young’s spokesman, Luke Miller, told FoxNews.com Young is still developing the legislation.
“The main thing is if an agency can’t justify a regulation, it shouldn’t be on the board,” he said. “The overall idea behind the legislation is to make sure an agency justifies these regulations.”
Since Republicans took control of the House this year, they have put a spotlight on what they view as excessive regulations that are harming profits and killing jobs. Democrats counter that regulations are necessary to protect the public from greed, irresponsibility and recklessness.
Young said at the luncheon that he knew it was unlikely that he could get his legislation past the Democratic-controlled Senate or the veto pen of President Obama.
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My hero!
This is a very good idea, as a start.
The next step is to de-fund these pernicious agencies.
Good idea!
All rules and orders issued by the Office of the President since 1/21/09 are voided.
A good start would be to roll back every regulation promulgated in the last 2 1/2 years.
He should start with ATF.
Even more importantly we need to rein in the power of the Federal bureaucracies to rule like petty tyrants. In many cases they have become legislature, judge, jury, and executioner.
How in the HELL does the EPA have the power ON THEIR OWN to destroy the US economy?
But they can shut down 20% of our coal fired electricity without and Economic impact study.
It’ll never happen of course. It’ll take decades to do the damage of Obama, let alone the last 20 years.
I agree.
The next Congress should meet not to pass new laws and regulations, but to repeal existing ones. That alone could keep them in business for 50 years.
yes
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Then go back through and do it again with the Bill of Rights.
Then one more time with the BoR and State regulations.
Then we'll be back on track...
Lame idea but it does get attention.
I didn't know we needed protection from 'greed'. Irresponsibility and recklessness is a part of personal responsibility.............
Actually Congress has given away all this authority to unelected bureaucrats. All regulations should go back to Congress for approval...let them do the job they were elected to do!
I’m sure there are regulations I might like in that period, but I’d be happy to give ‘em up I could eliminate 20 years of regulations!
I have a simple, yet surprisingly Constitutional answer to the problem: Make Congress vote on each and every new or changed regulation that federal regulating bodies enforce. As it is now, Congress completely gets off the hook when a federal agency is out of control. They have totally blurred the line between the legislative branch and the executive branch - and have already allowed the courts to make and eliminate laws.
Plus, if we need protection from greed, irresponsibility and recklessness, then what we need is protection from Democrats.
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