Posted on 05/14/2017 8:52:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Final score: Republicans 14, Barack Obama’s last-minute regulations, one.
Congressional Republicans anxious to show voters they can get something done are hailing their reversal of more than a dozen Obama-era regulations on guns, the internet and the environment.
Over a few months, lawmakers used an obscure legislative rule to ram through changes that will have far-reaching implications for the coal industry, broadband customers, hunters and women seeking health care at Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.
The deadline for scuttling the rules that Democrat Obama imposed during his final months in office was last Thursday. The 1996 Congressional Review Act had given Republicans the power to make the changes with a simple majority, within a set time. …
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“... a self-imposed deadline for making changes (by) RYAN ...”
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I am confused by what you are saying.
I thought the Congressional Review Act specified the deadline.
Something about x # of days after a report was submitted to congress...
(...not something that Ryan had any control over???)
Shut your holster, Schumer.
Written by Kevin Freking. Wonder how Kevin pronounces his last name?
Freking correctly, I’d wager.
“The fact that they are bragging about these highlights how little else they have accomplished legislatively,” Schumer said.
This WAS the TOP of their agenda ! what a dufus-
there was a time limit to get this done- and REVERSED all
but 1 of o’bummers kingly orders-
GOOD job, well done- now for o’bummer-care, this will
be harder because of the SEVEN years of Destroying our health care!- hard to turn around-
The military...just as hard- leftist, anti-American
morally repugnant a__holes in charge of our troops!
tough to get rid of all of them-
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