President Joe Biden’s proposal to overhaul the immigration laws could hardly be worse as a means of creating bipartisan consensus in Congress. It works as a way to keep the
Commentary: Bruce Lesley - Children are an issue that can unite country
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Joe Biden was inaugurated on Jan. 20 as our nation’s 46th president. But the insurrection at the Capitol aimed at derailing this process made clear that our new chief executive’s first order of business will be overcoming a historic divide.
President Biden must breach seemingly intractable differences over values, priorities and even facts themselves if he is to tackle the country’s growing crises of inequity, poverty, the economy and a raging pandemic. Fortunately, there is an issue around which he can rally almost all Americans: The well-being of our nation’s 74 million children.
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Most Republicans have Chosen Trump and the Domestic Terrorists; It is Time for Democrats to Brand Them as Such
Home » Most Republicans have Chosen Trump and the Domestic Terrorists; It is Time for Democrats to Brand Them as Such
Coup and Trump Enabler House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is making an unholy pilgrimage to Mara Largo to pucker up and kiss Donald Trump’s twice impeached tuchus.
He has also given a House Education Committee Assignment to Trump Zone-Fox Island-Disinfowar low life Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Called for the execution of Democratic Congressional Leaders.
Spread the false accusation that Hillary Clinton has masterminded a pedophile ring in a Washington DC Pizza Parlor.
The apparent sweep of a pair of Georgia U.S. Senate races opens the door for Democrats to eliminate a host of regulations passed by the Donald Trump administration.
In particular, the Department of Labor passed several rules that might not survive. The vehicle to erase rules is the Congressional Review Act. In an ironic twist, the CRA had been a little-used legislative tool until Trump was elected in 2016.
Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel noted the potential for Democrats to deliver payback:
The CRA gives Congress a short window to review and overturn federal rules. From 1996 to 2017, the act was used once, to overturn the Clinton administration’s workplace ergonomics rule in 2001. In the first months of 2017, however, a Republican-led Congress joined the Trump administration to nullify 16 rules issued at the end of the Obama administration.
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While news stories and campaign rhetoric can frequently create expectations of immediate shifts after a change in administration, most changes happen slowly in the federal government, and constraints on resources means that many areas of environmental regulation and permitting policy will remain unchanged in the early years of the new administration.
EPA’s Risk Management Program (“RMP”) Regulation
RMP regulations govern safety protocols in industries using hazardous chemicals. In November 2019, the Trump administration rescinded many of the significant Obama-era amendments to the RMP, which many in the industry believed to be overly burdensome and costly. The removed provisions included requirements regarding third-party audits, incident investigation root cause analysis, and safer technology and alternatives analyses. The Trump administration’s amendments were intended to shift from rules that increase complian