How Hillary Clinton’s Vote Against Clean Water Regulations Could Cost Her Michigan

As International Business Times reported, one of the manufacturers of MTBE

was ExxonMobil, a major supporter of the Clinton Foundation. In 2005, Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) introduced an amendment to a sweeping energy policy bill that would have banned the use of MTBE. While the amendment passed overwhelmingly with 70 votes in favor and 26 opposing, Hillary Clinton joined 14 Republicans and 11 Democrats in voting against the measure. According to OpenSecrets.org, Clinton raised over $74,000 from the oil and gas industry for her 2006 re-election effort. To date, ExxonMobil has given roughly $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.

http://usuncut.com/news/hillary-clinton-groundwater-pollution/

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Two LePage Cabinet members resign

Two LePage Cabinet members resign

The 4-month-old LePage administration announced a Cabinet shake-up today, with Darryl Brown leaving his post as commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection amid conflict-of-interest questions and the head of the state's economic development agency abruptly vacating his post.

Two LePage Cabinet members resign

Maine DEP Commissioner steps down

LePage announces numerous staff changes

Conyers: Republican REINS Act Witnesses Came Only to Promote Pro-Industry Interests Without Any Knowledge of Pending Legislation

Contact: Nicole Triplett, 202-226-5543                                                                                         

Wednesday, March 30, 2011  

                                                                

Conyers:  Republican REINS Act Witnesses Came Only to Promote Pro-Industry Interests Without Any Knowledge of Pending Legislation

(Washington)—House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement on his take of yesterday’s hearing on “Raising the Agencies’ Grades – Protecting the Economy, Assuring Regulatory Quality and Improving Assessments of Regulatory Need.”

“The Republicans’ witnesses could not disguise the fact that their call for hamstringing federal agencies stemmed from a blatant conflict of interest,” said Conyers.  “These witnesses were both from the Mercatus Center, an anti-regulatory think tank founded and funded by Charles and David Koch, who own the second largest privately held company in the Nation and have a long history of conflicts with the Environmental Protection Agency over their company’s violations of environmental regulations.  Other donors to Mercatus include companies with long records of pushing for deregulation, such as BP Amoco, Exxon Mobil Corporation, General Motors, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, and State Farm Insurance Company.”

“These witnesses had the temerity to ask Congress to change the regulatory system based solely on their own subjective views of the quality of federal agency rulemaking, views no doubt shaped by their corporate benefactors.  But they only further undermined their own credibility when they revealed their ignorance about H.R. 10, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act and other regulatory bills pending before Congress.”

“House Republicans should stop wasting time trying to base public policy on corporate propaganda and instead focus on creating jobs, stymieing home foreclosures, and ensuring through effective regulation the safety of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the products we buy, and the places we work.”

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REINS Is Literally "Job-Killing"

Oh, this is hilarious.

Here you have a group of individuals who believe regulation is "job killing".  Well, when you are dealing with elected persons who lack administrative sophistication, you must assume their advice comes from their advocates... oops, I mean lobbyists, the same individuals who would significantly benefit from less regulatory mandates.

See, it goes like this, even though all three branches of government have their input into any administrative regulation that comes down, it is actually "job killing" because most of the local governments would not be in operation if they had to be compliant, let alone have to be compliant wtih civil rights policies.  This rings with even more truth when you understand that these "economically significant" new rules that may come down are dealing with privatization, out-sourced by state governments.

If one possessed basic understanding of the legislative process, one would know there currently exists multiple forms of input from the people regarding the formation and adoption of regulations beyond the sole elected official.


There is the Federal Registry which allows for public content.  The elected official who is concerned with having a voice should assist and engage his/her constituents in the opportunities to submit historical comments into federal record.

Then, there is always the role of the elected official to, again, assist and engage his/her constituents on how to contact the administrators of each agency to voice concerns and to provide critical input in the development of any policies.

Alas, it seems here the elected official would prefer to bog down the legislative process in minutia of applying a fifth layer of approval for policies which would virtually shut down governmental functions.  Grandstanding at its finest.

Now, let's examine the counterfactual of a "so-called" removal of regulatory policies.  Let's take EPA for example.

You remove regulation of EPA, people become sick and die.  Sick people tend to cause a soaring costs to overall health care.  Sick people can not work nor be productive to society which means that they will not be able to afford individual private insurance and seek the single payer programs.  The moral hazard kicks in to increase the cost of private insurance placing more individuals at risk of loosing their medical coverage.

As the insurance companies financially benefit with an increase in profits by cherry picking who will be insured, there will be a need to further reduce its work force with fewer clients.
Dead people do not work nor pay taxes.

Now, that is what I call "job-killing", literally.

Beverly Tran
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Michigan Senate Resolution To Memorialize Congress For Moritoria On Regulation With REINS Act 2011