Trump establishes task forces to eliminate job killing regulations

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

Trump establishes task forces to eliminate job killing regulations

By Juliet Eilperin February 24 at 1:45 PM

President Trump signed an executive order Friday establishing task forces in every agency for removing job killing regulations and increasing economic opportunity.

Trump, who signed the measure in the Oval Office with the chief executives from U.S. firms such as Lockheed Martin, Dow Chemical, Archer Daniels Midland and International Paper standing behind him, said each task force will make recommendations to repeal or simplify existing regulations.

It will ensure that every agency has a team of dedicated people to research all regulations that are unnecessary, burdensome and harmful to the economy, and harmful to the creation of jobs and business, he declared. Every regulation should have to pass a simple test: Does it make life better or safer for American workers or consumers. If the answer is no, if the answer is no, we will be getting rid of it and getting rid of it quickly.

Under the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, eliminating a rule entails a detailed process in which agencies must subject such proposals to subject comment. It typically takes at least a year and a half to wipe a rule off the books, according to the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, although more recent ones can be overturned more quickly by a majority vote in Congress and the presidents signature. Trump has already overturned two Obama-era rules that way and is poised to nullify others.
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Juliet Eilperin is The Washington Post's senior national affairs correspondent, covering how the new administration is transforming a range of U.S. policies and the federal government itself. She is the author of two booksone on sharks, and another on Congress, not to be confused with each otherand has worked for the Post since 1998.
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I saw a thread about this in GD but not in LBN. See reply #2:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028703563

Hat tip, Joe.My.God: Trump Gives Pen To Dow Chemical CEO After Signing Order On Excessive Government Regulations
http://www.joemygod.com/2017/02/24/trump-gives-pen-dow-chemical-ceo-signing-order-excessive-government-regulations/

I urge everyone who starts a thread in LBN that is based on an article in print to include a link to the Twitter feed of the author or authors of that article. They are often working on similar stories. Not only that, but those Twitter feeds can lead to other similar Twitter feeds.

Also, I was trying to access an article in The Wall Street Journal. yesterday. they are going to a pay-per-view model for a lot of their content. In the past, I've been able to access TWSJ. articles by going in through Google News. I was not able to do that yesterday. I found that by going in through the author's Twitter feed, I was able to access the article.

Finally, pay particular attention to this sentence in the article:

Under the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, eliminating a rule entails a detailed process in which agencies must subject such proposals to subject comment. It typically takes at least a year and a half to wipe a rule off the books,...

You don't just snap your fingers, and the regulation is magically gone. It doesn't work that way.

[logosoco]

1. I am no expert, but this does not sound good at all.

How would cutting ANY regulation create jobs or make it possible for a company to hire more people? Isn't that a matter of supply and demand? Wouldn't having MORE regulations create jobs? There has to be more workers to make sure everything is done right.

As I said, I am not an expert. At my income level, I am barely a consumer. I am not a worker, but I have had jobs in the past.

And it mentions "life for the worker and consumer" but not really the life of the planet itself. Very telling. Not to mention the folks who are a part of this should NOT be in charge of their own regulations in any sense.

[Shell_Seas]

3. You know...

For example, if they kill a regulation that says polluters can't dump pollution in drinking water; then said polluter can dump pollution where ever they like saving them money, increasing their profit margin, and (hypothetically) having enough money to hire more workers.

[logosoco]

5. Oh yeah! Just like the tax cuts did during bu$hII.

[Bengus81]

23. And the ZERO percent tax rate for Kansas Corporations/LLC's/farmers

and even those who derive money from rentals. They all pay ZERO State taxes. Has hiring and job growth boomed since Jan 2013 when it went into effect?? HELL NO,it's stagnant. No big rush to Kansas by business and no big rush to hire anyone.

As with most of these Republican trickle down shams the rich POCKET the cash and spend little.

[jmowreader]

7. Which sounds good but violates Economics 101

Said no one ever, "we have barely enough business to justify the employees we have, but we just got a tax cut so let's hire more workers."

[Shell_Seas]

11. Turns out

common sense isn't so common.

[mr_lebowski]

8. You're definitely ENOUGH of an expert, because you can obviously see that this is a shafting ...

Goodbye Clean Air!
Goodbye Clean Water!
Goodbye Annoying Spotted Owls and Smelly Polar Bears!
Goodbye Safe Drugs!
Goodbye Safe Meat and Produce!
Goodbye Worker Safety!
Goodbye Unions (what's left of them)!
Goodbye Minimum Wage!
Goodbye Weekends!
Goodbye Paid Holidays!
Goodbye Overtime!
Goodbye Child Labor Laws!
Goodbye Employer-Paid Health Insurance!
Goodbye Fuel Economy Standards!
Goodbye National Parks (Hello 'Chevron's Yosemite Park')!
Goodbye Medicare (Hello 'Useless Vouchers')!
Goodbye Social Security (Hello 'Privatization')!
Goodbye Public School System!
Goodbye US Postal Service!

[Bengus81]

24. One more...Yellowstone National Condo..........nt

[SpankMe]

2. The man's an asshole

My comments on this are here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028703563

It's a quick read.

[Bayard]

4. More jobs for doctors and hospital staff maybe

We already know the EPA is in the bullseye, so expect tons more pollution and toxins in water. air, and earth. Pruitt will push for that certainly. Add the reduction in agricultural inspection and pharmaceutical testing by the FDA, with a few nukes to that equation, and they get all they're hoping for. I hope these people starve to death in their underground bunkers.

[Tanuki]

6. These are the same folks who called the ACA a "job killing

healthcare takeover."

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "a team of dedicated people to research all regulations"

Do they even know how the regulations are published and what that publications look like?

It's just books and books and books ("sections" of which are assigned to specific agencies - plus it is online) -



As the OP noted, draft changes are required to be published in the Federal Register for comment for "x" number of days and then revisions made as necessary and then put back out there again for comment. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

They need to go on youtube and look at this -

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. I swear I used that picture in a Power Point presentation. NT

As BumRushDaShow noted, the regulations are online too. They are at e-CFR, the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations:

http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/ECFR?page=browse

Oddly this is only an h-t-t-p, not an h-t-t-p-s. Everything else in the Feds is going to h-t-t-p-s.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Yup

They were still printing (last I saw) the Federal Register too.

We used to have the stack of CFRs for our agency in our office but obviously the online one made it easier. However out in the field, we had tiny copies of certain parts that we brought with us.

Edit to add that they may be still using http:// due to trying to accommodate some older browsers.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. For some reason, we had kept them going back for several years.

The person who had been keeping them retired last month. The CFRs (print versions of the Code of Federal Regulations) got thrown out yesterday. I didn't volunteer to take a single one.

We used to get cartons of CFRs every summer. Also, we got two copies of the Federal Register every day. That stopped three or four years ago.

I wonder who will be the party representative who makes sure we think good thoughts. I keep imagining the Nazi party representative on the U-boat. I had been thinking it was "The Enemy Below," but on second thought, it must be "Das Boot."

[BumRushDaShow]

15. LOL

They look impressive on a book case!

In most cases, nothing changed so they were still good to go for years!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. No one EVER opened them, but it was extremely important that we keep them. NT

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Ha ha

We had to cite them so occasionally had to open them and find the reference if it was an obscure one and we hadn't already memorized it.

[elleng]

16. They have NO idea!

[elleng]

14. As a retired Federal employee,

I suggest these 'task forces' will cost more than MOST regulations cost. THOUSANDS of regs to 'examine' by hundreds of employees, a GREAT idea!

[BumRushDaShow]

20. That's why this is a big joke

It ain't happening. He has no idea how these regulations are handled.

And am also a retired fed.

[msongs]

17. not really LBN it is an opionion piece endorsing the action nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. Say what?

Last edited Fri Feb 24, 2017, 05:27 PM - Edit history (1)

1) ***** signs an EO.

2) This EO directly affects about 80% of the commuters on the Red Line.

3) Indirectly, it affects anyone who has a job or eats food or drinks water or breathes air.

4) WaPo reporter writes a story about this: who, what, when, why, where, how.

5) How is this not news?

Please reply in triplicate, using Form SF-86. Use black ink only. Do not write outside the boxes provided.

Best wishes.

[GeorgeGist]

22. Trump establishes task forces to eliminate consumer protections.

Fixed it.

[nikibatts]

25. Profits and stock markets at all time highs...what regulations have killed jobs and what more

do they want? What has killed jobs is RW corporate CEOs and owners outsourcing for cheaper labor.
Someone should do an analysis on how much of the trade deficit is attributable to outsourcing and selling goods back into the US.