Aug. 15, 2016
Good morning from Washington, D.C., which continues to churn out regulations at a frenetic rate. James Gattuso and Matthew Andrews write about number of employees necessary to maintain our regulatory state, and David Kreutzer and Reece Brown showcase an outrageous contract government regulators OK'd. Andrew Egger analyzes why conservatives got a rare win in the Golden State. Plus: fact checking another gun claim from President Obama, and looking at how the Supreme Court fight will play out in the lame-duck session.
"We were hearing from legislators who said that they had gotten hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of phone calls on just this one piece of legislation," one college president said.
Government regulators approved a contract forcing consumers to pay four to five times the going rate for electricity produced by the plant.
While Republican leadership insists that the next president will nominate the ninth justice to the Supreme Court, a cadre of Republican senators is pushing a plan to confirm Merrick Garland if their party fails to take the White House this November.
Even during the last recession, the regulatory agencies were hiring.
The shifting of $81 million to combat Zika is overdue and demonstrates the Obama administration has had untapped resources to fight the mosquito-borne illness, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., said.
Here are the facts about Obama's gun claim.
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