The Top Five Key Federal Regulations That Republicans Are Trying To Defeat This Year

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Republicans are using funding legislation for the government to try and unravel federal regulations that they say go too far. From the new dietary guidelines that favor a vegan-like diet to regulations imposed on power plants to reduce their carbon footprint, Republicans are using the appropriations process to either delay rules or block funding for their implementation.

President Obama would have to sign these appropriations measures, so the provisions have the potential to sink a final spending package. But the policy provisions, known as riders, could be open to negotiation, as Democrats have agreed in recent years to block and weaken some federal regulations in massive spending packages in return for concessions from the GOP.

Dietary guidelines A provision in a $153.2 billion health, education and labor Senate spending bill, sponsored by Republicans, takes aim at new dietary guidelines that might recommend people eat less meat to help the environment.

Carbon pollution reductions Funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) landmark Clean Power Plan would be blocked under a $30.2 billion GOP-sponsored bill in the House. The agency would not be able to use any government funding to propose, finalize, implement or enforce the regulation, which was first unveiled in June 2014.

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http://thehill.com/policy/finance/246361-gop-sharpens-ax-for-regulations

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1. Don't miss this one ...

Union election rules

In the House and Senate spending bills that fund health, education and labor programs, Republicans included provisions that would either prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from using electronic voting in union elections or prevent it from issuing any future rules that allow those practices.

Those provisions target regulations the NLRB published last December that would allow workers to organize more quickly through faster union elections. Republicans refer to the policy, which took effect in mid-April, as the “ambush election” rule.

While pro-labor groups contend the regulation will help speed up union elections, GOP lawmakers argue it gives businesses little time to prepare. They say the regulation will speed up union elections to as little as two weeks after a petition is filed.

Republicans in both chambers of Congress passed a measure earlier this year that would have reversed the regulation, but they were unable to override Obama’s veto.

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2. Yeah, it's all worth reading. All corporate protectionism and anti-democracy. nt