GOP wins in reversing Obama-era rules on guns, environment, AP, 5/14/17
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/gop-wins-reversing-obama-era-120137105.html
Final score: Republicans 14, Barack Obama's last-minute regulations, one.
Congressional Republicans anxious to show voters they can get something done are hailing their reversal of more than a dozen Obama-era regulations on guns, the internet and the environment.
Among the 14 Obama rules overturned:
rules that enhanced protections for waterways near coal mines,
rules that required contractors to disclose violation of 14 federal labor laws for the previous three years when bidding on contracts
and rules that imposed tight restrictions on what broadband companies such as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast could do with their customers' personal data.
They voted to allow states to deny federal family planning money to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. (That reversed a rule Obama issued in his last weeks in office.)
and voted for the repeal of a regulation designed to keep guns out of the hands of certain mentally disabled people. The NRA as well as advocacy groups for the disabled and the ACLU weighed in. They said it was discriminatory for the Social Security Administration to forward the names of certain beneficiaries to the instant background check system based on a mental disability and having a third party manage their benefits.
Democrats and environmentalists scored one victory last week -- Senate Republicans failed to overturn a rule that would have forced energy companies to capture more of the methane that's burned off or "flared" at drilling sites. (John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Susan Collins were the 3 Republicans that voted with the Democrats)
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Not to mention all the garbage Trump nominees that they voted to confirm.
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