Speaker Ryan to call for major regulatory reforms

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The Hill:

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will call for major regulatory reforms Tuesday.

 

The GOP regulatory agenda would give lawmakers more power over regulators and more authority to reject controversial rules.

 

The plan, to be unveiled Tuesday afternoon as part of a broader GOP policy agenda, also focuses on eliminating costly and outdated regulations.

 

“We have too many regulations, but the real problem is that we have too many bad regulations,” the GOP leadership wrote in the plan.

The effort will include a renewed push for legislation that would give Congress the final say over major regulations.

The Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act passed the House last July but has stalled in the Senate amid President Obama’s threat to veto the bill.

"Congressional approval should be required for major new regulations,” the House Republican policy agenda reads.

Ryan will also push for a regulatory budget that Republicans say will force federal agencies to focus on their “highest priorities.” Critics, however, say it would handcuff regulators.

"Congress should also consider a first-ever regulatory budget that would place limits on the amount of regulatory costs federal agencies can impose each year,” the Republicans wrote.

"Once the budget limit is reached, the agency could not enact or issue any more regulations,” they added.

Regulators would also be instructed to implement the “least-costly” regulations.

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A Comprehensive Look at Paul Ryan’s Regulatory Reform Agenda

 

A task force of House Republicans on Tuesday released an agenda for regulatory reform, the latest in a series of policy documents designed, according to Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to apply America’s timeless principles—liberty, free enterprise, consent of the governed—to the problems of our times.

 

Titled “A Better Way,” the project prescribes congressional actions to address poverty, taxes, national security, health care, regulation, and the restoration of constitutional authority. With input from the public, members and staff of 10 House committees have contributed to the effort.

 

Here is an in-depth look at “A Better Way” from several Heritage Foundation research fellows:

 

Regulatory Reforms

 

Financial Regulations

 

Energy Regulations

 

Water and Agriculture Regulations

 

Regulatory Reforms

 

The new tract on regulatory reform opens with the observation that the last recession ended in 2009, but the economy has only been limping along ever since. “Job growth has been weak. Household income has stayed put. Business investment has barely budged.”

 

http://dailysignal.com/2016/06/14/a-comprehensive-look-at-paul-ryans-regulatory-reform-agenda/

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Speaker Ryan to call for new government spending limits

 

 

House Speaker Paul Ryan will call for the federal government to rein in spending Thursday.

 

As the national debt surges past $19 trillion, Republicans are searching for ways to limit Washington’s footprint. Congress should have the final say over "who is spending their money, what it’s being spent on, where it’s being spent, when it’s being spent, and why it’s being spent,” they say.

 

But “over time, congressional control over federal spending has eroded,” Republicans charge.

Ryan will make the case for Congress to assert more control over the spending and other aspects of the executive branch during the latest step in the GOP’s policy rollout.

 

Republicans will call for a “concentration of power” that gives them more authority over the White House. This will include more control over government spending and limits to regulations.

"Congress has routinely ceded control over spending to the executive branch,” Republicans say.

http://thehill.com/regulation/283706-speaker-ryan-to-call-for-new-government-spending-limits