Regulations

GOP lawmaker: Unburden small businesses

GOP lawmaker: Unburden small businesses

Daniel Chaitin · May 7, 2016 10:00 am

"The president spent a lot of time in his first term looking at whether or not you could do something broader through the legislature. That didn't happen," she said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Obama’s not so ‘elegant’ climate regulations

John Siciliano · May 7, 2016 4:02 am

For every law approved last year, President Obama's administration issued 30 new regulations. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Washington Secrets

Shock report: Federal red tape eats 11% GDP, rivals ALL pretax corporate profits

Paul Bedard · May 4, 2016 1:19 pm

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., announced at a hearing Wednesday that he is developing new legislation that would ensure that the EPA, and any other big agency, does not avoid the law in measuring the effects of its rules on small businesses. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Energy and Environment

GOP, Dems find common ground in going after EPA

John Siciliano · April 27, 2016 5:18 pm

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Comptroller Thomas Curry said the proposal for a new rule for megabanks is "one piece of a broader effort to increase the resiliency of the banking system." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Regulators roll out newest big rule for megabanks

Joseph Lawler · April 26, 2016 3:16 pm

Under affirmative consent policies, there is no way to actually prove such consent was obtained. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Beltway Confidential

Prepare to have your sex life regulated by government

Ashe Schow · April 21, 2016 6:22 pm

Bureaucratic negligence and a lack of concern for human life led to people cutting corners. (Jake May /The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

Energy and Environment

In Flint, a first step toward government accountability

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2016 4:01 am

Holding Regulators Accountable Used to Be Bipartisan

Chris Deaton · April 18, 2016 4:55 pm

The new safety rules are the administration's response to the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Energy and Environment

Obama to issue landmark offshore oil and gas rules

John Siciliano · April 14, 2016 4:33 pm

Antonio Weiss, left, counselor to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, testifies on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Treasury official dismisses bank fears about liquidity crisis

Joseph Lawler · April 14, 2016 3:48 pm

Government data could do a lot of good in the hands of informed citizens but all too often are out of reach. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Republicans should be the party of ‘open data’

Kristen Soltis Anderson · April 13, 2016 4:03 am

Thirty-seven states cut their emissions between 2000-13, according to an analysis of state-level carbon emissions by theÂ Energy Information Administration, the independent analysis arm of the Department of Energy. (AP Photo)

Washington Secrets

Regulation nation: Obama busts Bush’s record and still has 10 months left

Paul Bedard · April 12, 2016 10:28 pm