When President Obama named Ray LaHood to serve as his administration’s secretary of Transportation, LaHood brought with him a vision for changing the way Americans moved from one place to another.
On February 12, 2018, the Trump Administration unveiled a $1.5 trillion initiative to repair the nation’s roads, bridges, airports, and railways. The first step should be to reduce the regulatory barriers that impede infrastructure projects and vastly inflate their costs. Any new infrastructure funding should be conditional on meaningful regulatory reform starting with repeal of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Syrian cities on Friday to call for the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad in one of the largest outpourings of opposition since protests began over three months ago.
From a legal perspective, the Court’s decision will serve as a significant precedent with respect to what limits, if any, still apply to congressional authority fundamentally, whether the federal government remains one of limited powers.