Posted on 03/29/2024 3:21:00 PM PDT by Twotone
Democrats in Congress are encouraging the Biden administration to quickly enact a slew of far-reaching regulations ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to Punchbowl News.
The Biden administration has pursued an aggressive regulatory agenda to implement President Joe Biden’s political priorities, including measures to encourage the production of more electric vehicles, forgive student loans, restrict “junk fees” by service providers and ban non-competition clauses in contracts, among many others. Amid concerns that Biden may not win the election against former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, Democrats have been encouraging the administration to finalize rules as soon as possible to preclude their expeditious reversal if Biden loses office, Punchbowl News reported. (RELATED: Biden Added $745 Billion Worth Of Regulations In 2023)
“Time, time, time is how I describe this to every head of every agency I speak with,” said Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to Punchbowl News. “We need to have this done and done quickly. If we didn’t learn that lesson back in 2016, then shame on us.”
Regulations enacted by an administration may be rescinded by its successor subject to the Administrative Procedures Act or repealed by Congress using the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which allows the body to repeal regulations finalized by executive branch agencies within 60 legislative days of their publication in the Federal Register. CRA votes are expedited and do not require cloture in the Senate, precluding them from being filibustered.
Joint resolutions passed under CRA provisions must still be presented to the President and may be vetoed by him, with such resolutions representing all of Biden’s veto actions during his term. However, in 2017, the Republican-led 115th Congress passed several CRA resolutions to repeal several regulations finalized by the Obama administration that Trump signed into law.
The administration is currently in the process of finalizing several high-profile regulatory actions that affect multiple aspects of American life. These include a planned rule by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to impose background checks on firearms purchased at gun shows and online, a rule to expand mental healthcare access in coverage plans offered by health insurance providers, a rule to impose stricter pollutant emissions standards for heavy-duty commercial vehicles and a rule to increase the cost of leases for oil and gas exploration on public lands. (RELATED: Biden Proposes Increasing Budget Of Agency Pushing Gun Regulations By 30%)
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which reviews all regulations by non-independent executive branch agencies before they are finalized, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
If Trump is elected, he’ll bring his pen.
Wait. I thought it was Republicans who are the dictators.
To that that repulsive nagging Karen Elizabeth Warren referencing the mistakes of being easygoing 2016 means the Dems really are in trouble.
Yay.
Let’s see. They know the fence is going up so they better work fast. Reminds be of the bathroom stall: “$hit fast. The crabs jump high.”
They need to get as much crap in as they can, and every bit of it needs to have an LGBT, or racial angle so that when Trump tried to repeal it, they can decry his attacks on those “marginalized communities” when they go to the federal courts.
They have to do this to SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY.
Biden makes no decisions and has no real power per-se.
He is simply the visible lightning rod on top of a huge criminal enterprise masquerading as a political party.
#7 posted on 3/29/2024, 1:59:08 PM by SpaceBar
Pretty simple solution. Tell every single new Trump agency head or Secretary to make a list of all regulations that have been enacted in the last 12 to 18 months and the rescind every single one of them. And listen, everybody needs to get it through their collective heads that the corrupt DNC media will screech to high heaven about the “calamity and recklessness” of the Trump administration. TOUGH! Trump will have a mandate and should just move the bulldozer as quickly as possible. Forget the corrupt DNC media.
Anyone that thinks they can fight the climate is a raving lunatic
Hmmm.
My copy of our Constitution reads, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States . . . “
Silly me.
This is yet more clear evidence that THEY KNOW they will lose, that they cannot steal it again.
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