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Congressman Wants to Repeal All Federal Regulations From the Past 20 Years
FoxNews.com ^ | September 29, 2011 | unattributed

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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TOPICS: Government; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: donyoung; partylikeits1991; regulations
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Well, at least someone's proposing to do something about regulators gone wild....
1 posted on 09/29/2011 11:51:59 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck

My hero!


2 posted on 09/29/2011 11:54:32 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: Hunton Peck

This is a very good idea, as a start.

The next step is to de-fund these pernicious agencies.


3 posted on 09/29/2011 11:55:21 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Hunton Peck

Good idea!


4 posted on 09/29/2011 11:55:50 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: Hunton Peck
I would love the next President upon his Swearing In to do a reverse of the standard Change of Command Line:

All rules and orders issued by the Office of the President since 1/21/09 are voided.

5 posted on 09/29/2011 11:57:55 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Hunton Peck

A good start would be to roll back every regulation promulgated in the last 2 1/2 years.


6 posted on 09/29/2011 12:00:37 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Hunton Peck

He should start with ATF.


7 posted on 09/29/2011 12:02:25 PM PDT by ZULU (DUMP Obama in 2012)
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To: Hunton Peck

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?


8 posted on 09/29/2011 12:03:32 PM PDT by DManA
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My pet peeve: EPA is able to reject a proposal if it doesn't pass an Environmental Impact Study.

But they can shut down 20% of our coal fired electricity without and Economic impact study.

9 posted on 09/29/2011 12:03:48 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: Hunton Peck

It’ll never happen of course. It’ll take decades to do the damage of Obama, let alone the last 20 years.


10 posted on 09/29/2011 12:04:34 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: lurk

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.


11 posted on 09/29/2011 12:05:51 PM PDT by karnage
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yes


12 posted on 09/29/2011 12:18:29 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Hunton Peck

yes


13 posted on 09/29/2011 12:18:45 PM PDT by dalebert
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Another vote for "good start". Take every Federal regulation and run it up against a plain reading of Art 1 Sec 8. Anything that doesn't match up DIRECTLY gets tossed.

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...

14 posted on 09/29/2011 12:21:39 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
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To: Hunton Peck

Lame idea but it does get attention.


15 posted on 09/29/2011 12:22:45 PM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Congress doesn't care a damn about "we the people")
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Democrats counter that regulations are necessary to protect the public from greed, irresponsibility and recklessness.

I didn't know we needed protection from 'greed'. Irresponsibility and recklessness is a part of personal responsibility.............

16 posted on 09/29/2011 12:26:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (We cannot defeat an enemy that the president and hence his administration cannot name.......)
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To: Red Badger

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!


17 posted on 09/29/2011 12:29:21 PM PDT by Voltage
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To: Hunton Peck

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!


18 posted on 09/29/2011 12:37:21 PM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Hunton Peck

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.


19 posted on 09/29/2011 12:37:41 PM PDT by Pecos (O.K., joke's over. Time to bring back the Constitution.)
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To: Red Badger

Plus, if we need protection from greed, irresponsibility and recklessness, then what we need is protection from Democrats.


20 posted on 09/29/2011 12:40:30 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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