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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Republican senators will hold a press conference today, Wednesday, July 29, at 2:00 p.m. EDT to discuss a new bill that protects women’s health and defunds Planned Parenthood. The senators introduced the bill following gruesome footage showcasing Planned Parenthood’s role in the harvesting of the organs of unborn babies.
WHO: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), U.S. Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.), U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
Photo Courtesy: U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie
SOURCE: Office of Rep. Thomas Massie
U.S. Representative Massie Votes to Pass REINS Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Thomas Massie voted to pass the bipartisan Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act (H.R. 427), which would curb the Administration’s unchecked and costly regulations. Congressman Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the bill on January 21st, 2015, with 133 original co-sponsors, including Congressman Massie. The House of Representatives passed the REINS Act, 243-165.
“Excessive regulation stifles economic growth, hurts small businesses, and raises consumer prices,” said Congressman Massie. “It is vital that Congress act to reduce our regulatory burden, which raises consumer prices, reduces wages, and costs jobs.”
“The REINS Act is key to reforming our nation’s regulatory system so that the American people can hold Congress accountable for the law of the land,” said Congressman Todd Young (R-IN). “While the President would prefer to act unilaterally—and he has made that abundantly clear in recent months—that’s not the way our system operates. Unfortunately, when the executive branch issues regulations with a huge economic impact or negative consequences, it’s hard for the American people to hold accountable a nameless, faceless federal bureaucracy. Requiring an up-or-down vote by Congress on major regulations restores the notion that the legislative branch is in charge of writing laws, brings transparency to our regulatory system, and ensures our constituents know who is responsible when burdensome regulations take effect.”
The REINS Act would require congressional approval for regulation expected to cost the economy more than $100 million, lead to a major increase in consumer prices, or adversely affect employment.
“Congress has delegated its authority to unaccountable federal agencies over the past decades,” added Congressman Massie. “Unelected bureaucrats do not have the constitutional authority to write laws. Only Congress has this power, and ceding it to federal agencies undermines our representative form of government.”
Kentucky 4th district constituent Lloyd Rogers of Alexandria, Kentucky, and a member of Massie’s congressional staff, first conceived of the bill.
Rogers added, “As Campbell County, Kentucky, Judge-Executive, I saw local government was being hampered by unconstitutional regulations and mandates from the EPA. Auto emission checking, sewer mandates, water regulations and a plethora of overreaching rules and mandates. Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution states, ‘All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.’ I saw no authority for the EPA to make law, so I felt they needed to be restrained.”
Though the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan REINS Act in both the 112th and 113th Congress, the bill never received a vote in the Senate under Democratic leadership.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is the lead sponsor of the REINS Act (S.226) in the Senate.
PHOTO(s) OF THE DAY
SOURCE: Department of Defense /Defense News Lead Photo
An MV-22 Osprey lands during a personnel recovery training exercise in Southwest Asia, July 28, 2015. The 185th Theater Aviation Brigade conducts interoperability training missions to enhance mission capabilities between U.S. Army aviation and other U.S. military forces. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Army Sgt. Michael Needham/Released)
Two U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, from the New Jersey Air National Guard’s 177th Fighter Wing, left, lead a mixed formation including a Bulgarian air force MiG-29 Fulcrum and MiG-21 Fishbed over Bulgaria during Thracian Star on July 20, 2015. Thracian Star 2015 is a bilateral training exercise to enhance interoperability with the Bulgarian air force, hosted by Graf Ignatievo Air Base. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Andrew J. Moseley/Released)
150729-N-MJ645-193 PACIFIC OCEAN (July 29, 2015) — Electrician’s Mate Fireman Christopher Appel, a native of Barberton, Ohio, exercises in the hangar bay aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). The Sailors from the John C. Stennis Strike Group are undergoing the Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), the final step before being certified for deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marcus L. Stanley/Released)
U.S. paratroopers with C Battery, 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, load a M119A2 howitzer in support of the British army’s 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment during exercise Wessex Storm at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, July 28, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Gertrud Zach/released)
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