New bill would help review regs before passed

by | Jul 27, 2015 | Legislative News, National News

Policymaking and Regulations

Posted 7/26/2015

The House will consider two bills, which would influence how federal agencies create regulations:

Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act (HR 1831)

  • Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) “Would establish a 15-member commission to study how best to expand the use of data to evaluate the effectiveness of federal programs and tax expenditures. The commission would also study how best to protect the privacy rights of people who interact with federal agencies and ensure confidentiality. Specifically, the commission would determine whether the federal government should establish a clearinghouse for program and survey data, which qualified researchers from both the private and public sector could access and use to perform program evaluations and policy-relevant research. By coordinating data across federal programs and tax expenditures, and giving researchers greater access to that data, federal agencies would gain a better grasp of how effective they are, and lawmakers would gain a better grasp of how to improve them,” according to the bill sponsors.

Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act (HR 427)

  • Sponsor: Rep. Todd Young (R-IN) “Would require any executive branch rule or regulation with an annual economic impact of $100 million or more—designated by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as a “major rule”—to come before Congress for an up-or-down vote before being enacted,”according to the bill sponsor. “In 2014, the executive branch finalized 3,541 new rules and regulations—approximately 16 times greater than the 223 new laws passed by Congress and signed by President. Of those rules and regulations, 200 were deemed to be ‘major’.”

 

Charter

by | Mar 12, 2015 | Uncategorized

Here are the videos covering the Clallam County Home Rule Charter Commission meetings:

 

Meeting held on Jan. 5, 2015 – http://youtu.be/6Q-4Lk-6pqM

Meeting held on Feb. 2, 2015 – http://youtu.be/zHVsy6ffI-g

Public Hearing from Feb. 17, 2015 – http://youtu.be/JN4CEAfkfj8

Public Hearing from Feb. 25, 2015 – http://youtu.be/KQlGje4UvGA

Public Hearing from March 2, 2015 – http://youtu.be/kKjDPZz1O2w

Many thanks to individual citizens like Stephanie Noblin and the citizen group Smart Awareness, for furnishing these.  (Note: They are not “official” by standards of the county; you can listen to the official audiotapes at

http://clallam.net/bocc/homerulecharter.html

in addition to having access to the written documents – agendas, minutes and submitted written testimonies.

Survey

by | Mar 12, 2015 | Uncategorized

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An Election Challenge: Just One Vote

by | Nov 1, 2014 | GOP Commentary

by Paul Harvey
from K-House.org

(originally published in 1996)

One voter in each precinct of the United States will determine the next president of the United States. One vote. That’s a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.

One morning in 1844, a grain miller from DeKalb County, Indiana, was walking toward his mill. It was Election Day, but he had work to do and did not intend to vote. Before he reached the mill, however, he was stopped by friends who persuaded him to go to the polls. As it happened, the candidate for whom he voted won a seat in the state legislature”by a margin of one vote.

Now, when the Indiana Legislature convened, the man elected from DeKalb cast the deciding vote that sent Edward Allen Hennegan to the United States Senate. Then, in the Senate, when the question of statehood for Texas came up, there was a tie vote. But who do you suppose was presiding as president pro tempore Hennegan. He cast the deciding vote from the chair. So, Texas was admitted to the union because a miller in DeKalb County, Indiana, went 10 minutes out of his way to cast…one vote.

More? Thomas Jefferson was elected president by one vote in the Electoral College. So was John Quincy Adams. One vote gave statehood to California, Idaho, Oregon, Texas and Washington. The Draft Act of World War II passed the House by one vote.

Over 200 million Americans are eligible to vote this year. Less than half will. Plato said it: The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. So your vote is important. Historically, you use it…or you lose it. If you’re not sure for whom you should vote, turn to a newspaper you can trust. Because everything we’ve won in 10 wars at the point of a gun can be taken away one vote at a time. Edmund Burke said it another way: All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in this world is for enough good men to do nothing.