{"id":11846,"date":"2011-10-28T18:51:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T22:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11846"},"modified":"2011-10-28T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T22:51:51","slug":"reins-act-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11846\/reins-act-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"REINS Act Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, I\u2019ve written about the need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/60\/926-legislation-tries-to-pull-the-reins-on-federal-regulations-\" target=\"_blank\">pass the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act<\/a> by Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY).\u00a0 If passed, the <a href=\"http:\/\/geoffdavis.house.gov\/REINS\/News\/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=266076\" target=\"_blank\">bill would require<\/a> all new bureaucratic rules costing $100 million or more to have an up-or-down, standalone vote in Congress, plus the President\u2019s signature before going into effect.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of the REINS Act is to give Congress a check on the administrative state so that job-killing regulations get a chance to be eliminated before going into effect.<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another example giving the lie to President Obama\u2019s charge of a do-nothing Congress, the House majority continues to move bills that will help the economy.\u00a0 The House Judiciary Committee reported the bill favorably yesterday.\u00a0 Here\u2019s hoping it gets fast-tracked for a full House vote soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, I\u2019ve written about the need to pass the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act by Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY).\u00a0 If passed, the bill would require all new bureaucratic rules costing $100 million or more to have an up-or-down, standalone vote in Congress, plus the President\u2019s signature before going into effect. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,84,3158,300,3042],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-geoff-davis","tag-regulation","tag-reins-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11850,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}