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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Too bad it will never happen.
See also: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/09/this-weeks-applied-hayek-epa-edition.php
Absolutely on point.
I’ve long advocated rolling back the entirety of the law to 1910. If it wasn’t against the law then, they need to come up with a damn good reason for it to be against the law now. Also, all laws and regulations should sunset every 5 or 10 years, and require specific authorization by congress to re-enact them.
I agree, but why stop at 20 years? Go for the last 40 years.
Too bad they don't see the government as the embodiment of all of those things.
I and everyone else on this thread eagerly await the explanation of how regulations prevented the situation at Solyndra.
HELL, YES!
HELL, YES!
HELL, YES!
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