Posted on 10/07/2015 1:56:54 PM PDT by Isara
WASHINGTON – Overregulation robs minority Americans of opportunity, Sen. Ted Cruz argued Tuesday at a Senate hearing that did double duty as a platform to critique the administration and to amplify his own campaign themes.
“Fighting for economic opportunity is why I ran for office,” Cruz said after the hearing, citing his “opportunity conservative” philosophy that focuses on “easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.”
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“They seemingly regulate everything under the sun,” Cruz said. Federal regulation has exploded in the last half-century, he said, from 20,000 pages to 175,000, “all in incredibly small print” that no individual could possibly understand.
Witnesses included Sabina Loving, a black woman from Chicago who tangled with the IRS over her tax preparation business, after the agency began requiring licensing that would have driven up her costs. CPAs and attorneys were exempt. The rule helped tamp down competition facing big tax-preparation chains.
“I sued the IRS over its anti-competitive licensing scheme,” Loving said. “Thankfully we won.”
Harry Alford, president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, denounced new EPA new rules on greenhouse gas emissions, arguing the rules would drive up costs for electricity, hitting poor families especially hard.
Tighter standards will shut down construction, development and, therefore, employment and economic opportunity, he said.
Cruz agreed. “Overregulation is stifling opportunity for people who want to achieve the American dream,” he said.
But Aaron Mair, president of the Sierra Club, asserted that foes of EPA live in “an alternative universe” in which corporate polluters use “propaganda” to persuade vulnerable low-income Americans to oppose anti-pollution efforts.
He and Cruz tangled repeatedly, including a tense and prolonged exchange over climate change.
Mair seemed ill-prepared for the cool interrogation Cruz walked him into.
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Tangles? The director was an embarrassing stooge. More like shooting fish in a barrel. Actually, Cruz, while tough, was very nice to this idiot.
He was really kind considering what obvious idiots they are, but make no mistake - they are dangerous idiots pursuing agenda 21 quite aggressively in the west.
I watched the video of President Cruz and the Sierra Club Nazi, He should have called for an order of Contempt and JAILED THE NAZI!
Cruz to Victory.
We’ve got some very good people in our corner.
Unfortunately we also have a lot of idiots who abandon the good people at the first sight of a shiny new object.
Apparently, he’s the “first” African-American director of The Sierra Club - I swear, they must have pulled him off some bar stool and propped him up.
I’m ashamed to admit but in the 70s, I was a member. I thought they were out to save all those nice wolves...
Said the spider to the fly.
A quality which I really admire in him as well as Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama. It really takes superhuman strength to be nice to fools while not suffering them gladly.
Do people appreciate just how rare that quality is?
AA prezzys are not strong support for the concept.
Mark Steyn was in for Rush today, and he lauded Ted Cruz to the skies over this. He said that this is Ted Cruz’ real metier. Pointing out that Cruz has been shut out of the presidential debates thus far.
Sen Cruz reminds me a lot of RR!
“I don’t know “nuttin” but what they tell me.”
could be the song that Mair sings and is written by, and passed up to him, by his the rear echelon.
I’m from Albany and often heard bits and pieces of Mair’s sometime weekly radio show that was on about 5:00 or 5:30 am on Saturday morning on an Oldies Music station. The radio show was mainly about the Black Culture and their past and current struggle. Two of his daughters both have done well, both were graduates of West Point.... how often does that happen!
I think he does better in the Black History venue which every one interpret as they like.
Cruz does a great cross examination.
Mair wasn’t ready for prime time. Cruz was excellent.
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