Posted on 08/30/2011 12:22:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
President Obama on Tuesday informed House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that his administration is considering seven regulations that would cost more than $1 billion.
Boehner asked for the list of costly rules last week as the GOP prepped a fall jobs agenda focused on stopping regulations and cutting taxes.
Four of the regulations Obama listed as costing more than $1 billion are being considered by the Environmental Protection Agency. The others are from the Department of Transportation.
“I agree that it is extremely important to minimize regulatory burdens and to avoid unjustified regulatory costs, particularly in this difficult economic period,” Obama wrote to Boehner. “I have taken a number of steps to achieve those goals.”
The president noted that he has initiated a review of regulations that is expected to save at least $10 billion over five years.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Monday revealed that the GOP will target 10 regulations this fall in an effort to provide relief for small businesses. The four EPA regulations that Obama listed were already on the GOP’s list of rules to target.
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(President Obama on Tuesday informed House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that his administration is considering seven regulations that would cost more than $1 billion.)
Say what!!!
Did we not just have to raise the debt ceiling because we are broke and have spent MORE money then we have??
Is Obama going to pull that Billion out of his ass??
4 days interest on todays debt
Boehner to Obama;
“Mr President, laws are made in the legislative branch of our government.”
“Run along now. What time do you tee-off today ? “
This is definitely a challenge to the House (where spending bills originate) and to the GOP in general.
While Boehner got a lot of criticism here, he has actually managed to make Obama back down on some things. After the standoff last month, which he basically won (not as much as we would all like, but this is the first time in many years that these issues have even been addressed), I think he’ll be more aggressive this time.
Remember, folks, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Try to be supportive and encouraging rather than making Boehner think his worst enemies are in his own party. Encourage him to go that one extra step. Remember, we’re all non-elected folks sitting safely behind our keyboard in anonymity, but he’s actually the one who has to go out there and do this stuff.
Obama wants a showdown and we have to help Boehner win it.
The big question is how hard will Boehner fight to defeat these regulations or will he cry and cave?
We just had a safety audit today and had 4 small violations but preparation and implementation has taken over a year and countless hours and it doesn’t end. I swear, we have to document every breath we or anyone working takes.
One of the violations was we had one sink that wasn’t hands free, another was that a tank was not marked non-potable water.
It has cost over 3K in required materials and 2K in schooling. It has cost productivity.
That is only the tangible part of the process, I’d say in the long run this will cost us over 20K.
Obama is such a liar. Every word of that is BS. He DOESN'T think minimal regulations are important and he's done NOTHING to achieve that goal.
Liar-In-Chief is what he is. Lying POS....
More horribly written ‘ news’ honestly after reading the article I can’t tell wtf the author is saying...pure crap...
I’m going with the ‘cry and cave’
Says it all!
What's worse, these screamin idiots are obsessed with feeding the leviathon the values of all the rest of us and we might mess up with a messy democratic process and allow them to hang on to power with our trying to out-maneuver them by put up someone more like them, than sticking with giving Americans a righteous CHOICE on election day!!!
I checked it out Wasp Man and my name is not on it... However yo.....
The EPA is considering an ozone regulation that could cost $19 billion to $90 billion to implement...
...a coal-and-oil utility regulation costing $10 billion...
...a rule for industrial boilers costing $3 billion...
...and a regulation on coal-fired power plants costing up to $1.5 billion...
...regulations regarding rearview mirrors that would cost $2 billion...
...and two involving the hours of service commercial vehicles can perform before maintenance that would cost between $1 billion and $2 billion...
Thanks Ernest.
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