Top 10 Reads: June 30, 2011
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Georgia Commissioner Seeks Reforms for Nuclear Waste Management
Photo courtesy of the Athens Banner-Herald. State public service officials are gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the winter meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility...
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Cybersecurity: Harnessing the Power of the Private Sector
Newscom Last week, a hacker turned cybersecurity expert, Marc Maiffret, published an enlightening op-ed in The New York Times, arguing the private sector can and should do more to improve the nation’s...
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USA vs. YOU: Heritage Expert Testifies on Overcriminalization
Even Congress doesn’t know how many federal crimes there are — that was the implication at a recent hearing focused on overcriminalization. This past Friday, June 14, the House’s new bipartisan...
View ArticleSmall Business Caught in Big Government’s Net
This story has been removed based on new information that came to The Foundry’s attention. The post Small Business Caught in Big Government’s Net appeared first on Daily Signal.
View ArticleCoal Ash Bill Empowers States
The House will soon consider Representative David McKinley’s (R–WV) Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act (H.R. 2218), which would block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from classifying...
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How Government Shut Down the Chinatown Bus
Nicolaus Czarnecki/ZUMA Press/Newscom The federal regulatory apparatus has made Americans poorer and less safe, and it has eliminated hundreds of jobs by shutting down 41 bus companies in the past...
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Tales of the Red Tape #41: The FDA’s Latest Mission Creep(iness)
Newscom Federal regulations already dictate the shape, color, size, and content of the nutrition panel on food labels. Not good enough, apparently. The diet squad at the Food and Drug Administration...
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Next Fed Chairman: Independence Is Paramount
Newscom Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration for the next chairmanship of the Federal Reserve. The office currently occupied by Ben Bernanke wields enormous power over short-run economic...
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JOBS Act: Crowdfunding Moves Forward
Newscom The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, passed in April 2012 with huge bipartisan majorities, was designed to substantially reduce the regulatory burden on entrepreneurs seeking to...
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The Thanksgiving Menu: Overstuffed with Regulations
KAREN SCHIELY KRT/Newscom On the fourth Thursday of November, our attention naturally turns to food and football the Pilgrims who celebrated America’s first Thanksgiving. After great privation, a...
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Holes in Federal Cybersecurity
Newscom Yesterday brought news that the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has found gaps in DHS’s cybersecurity. Politico reports that, according to the IG: [T]he agency...
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Washington Post: Obama Administration Slowed Red Tape to Avoid 2012 Election...
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Last fall, Heritage Foundation analysts noted an eerie silence coming from Obama regulatory agencies. The production of new rules, which until then had been in overdrive,...
View ArticleH.R. 3766 Wrong Approach to Global Commercial Nuclear Growth
Last week Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R–FL) introduced H.R. 3766, resurrecting the supposed “gold standard” for commercial nuclear trade. However, the bill discourages the very behavior that...
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The War on Cinnamon: More EU Regulatory Overreach
Newscom The European Union (EU) is well known for its regular attempts to regulate even the smallest and most miniscule parts of life on the continent. In May 2013, the EU dropped plans to ban...
View ArticleSEC Continues Clash with Financial Stability Oversight Council
The 2010 Dodd–Frank Act is a colossal regulatory mess that gave us, among other things, a new set of turf battles among regulators. The latest fight is between the Securities and Exchange Commission...
View ArticleRegulation A+ Proposed Rule Needs Work
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to be commended for recognizing the debilitating problems with the existing Regulation A, but unless the proposed rule is modified in substantial ways,...
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WSJ: Obama ‘Regulator Without Peer’
Photo: Thinkstock In an editorial appearing today, The Wall Street Journal examined one of the few areas of the economy enjoying an unabated boom: federal regulation. Armed with numbers obtained from a...
View ArticleDebate Heats Up Over Whether Internet Can Remain Free
Fadi Chehadé, president and chief executive of ICANN, the organization that controls website addresses on the Internet, is confident the United States’ ceding control of the organization won’t affect...
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