House Republicans insist that President Obama is making the regulatory climate repressive for business – causing unemployment to rise. As a result – House Republicans plan to take up a bill – the Regulations of the Executive in Need of Review Act – this summer. The REINS Act would require Congressional approval of any new regulation with an economic cost of more than 100-million dollars. The House may have enough votes to pass the measure – but much debate would be expected in the Senate – if it makes it to the floor at all.
Some Senators – including Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy who is the Judiciary Committee Chairman – say such a measure would lead to even more gridlock. Republicans are firm believers that the private sector needs relief from federal regulation. Ohio Senator Rob Portman is a leader in the effort to require regulations in areas like nuclear safety, crop subsidies and auto fuel efficiency to gain Congressional approval before they go into effect. Supporting Senators say the U.S. needs to prevent disruptive regulations by presidents from taking effect without the consent of Congress. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and Kentucky Senator Geoff Davis support this regulation legislation and say even if it doesn’t get passed this year – it will be part of their party’s campaign in 2012.
Many of us remember the struggle of learning to ride a bike as a kid. Eventually we mastered it, and perhaps we’re still riding today. Jed didn’t have the luxury of learning on a bike with two wheels though. What happened next put him on the side of a mountain…..
If you lived without electricity–either by choice or simply because of the location you lived–where would you go to find modern conveniences that didn’t need kilowatts to make them run? There’s a good chance you’d come here. It’s the shopping mall for those who don’t use electricity so to speak…..
If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times. But for Jay Lehman, doing the exact opposite in a sense has been his family’s route to success…..
The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton, Ohio that helped them perfect the plane. Those farmers pastures where they trained were full of dangers…..
Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio city were much of the work took place before and after that inaugural mission. It’s a place where Orville Wright was skipping school at the age of six for what he thought was a very good reason…..
We’ve all been to museums, but have you ever been to one were you needed to put on a boot and raincoat? It?s a unique museum that is teaching us a lot about how we like to learn…..
Michelangelo had a very large canvass when he began work on the Sistine chapel. Make a trip to this river town and you’ll find a man who had two and a half blocks of canvass to fill, and his results are also very impressive……
When you pull in the drive at the Lance farm, you might expect to see cattle or horses. But a closer look reveals a variety like that about Noah’s Ark. It’s a new business that allows visitors to see, touch and feed exotic animals…..
Civil War engineers were simply running out of names, but that doesn’t mean the forts here were not important. It’s a place where the Union troops simply named their forts for the letters of the alphabet…..