From Catfish to Kombucha, Conservatives Target 200-Plus Rules

[Kilgore]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-14/from-catfish-to-kombucha-conservatives-target-200-plus-rules


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is also on board. "The president-elect has made it clear he’s going to move on as many regulatory changes as he can make as soon as he takes office," McConnell said at a news conference this week.

High on the Freedom Caucus’s agenda are ending President Barack Obama’s executive actions protecting undocumented immigrants who arrived as children and ending the Export-Import Bank, of which Boeing Co. is the biggest beneficiary. The list also calls for undoing the 1905 law that created the Overseas Private Investment Corp. which helps U.S. businesses gain a foothold in emerging markets.

The list also targets First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative against childhood obesity, rules requiring for-profit colleges to teach employable skills, regulations intended to make ceiling fans and washing machines more energy efficient. Net neutrality rules that benefit internet content providers over broadband providers also make the list.

The caucus also included southern lawmaker-authored protections for the domestic catfish growers and alcohol transport regulations that hit the kombucha tea industry. It wants the federal rule barring the transport of drinks with more than 0.5 percent alcohol to be raised, "in order to support the growing kombucha industry."

[pangaia]

1. The bet neutrality thing has me worried.