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Boehner: No New Regs!
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH)
House Minority Leader John Boehner, fresh out of a meeting with business and trade group lobbyists, announced a new idea this afternoon: A moratorium on all new federal regulations, for a year.
"I think having a moratorium on new federal regulations is a great idea it sends a wonderful signal to the private sector that they're going to have some breathing room," he said, according to Greg Sargent.
"I think there's probably a way to do this with an exemption for emergency regulations that may be needed for some particular agency or another," he said. "But if the American people knew there was going to be a moratorium in effect for a year that the federal government wasn't going to issue thousands more regulations, it would give them some breathing room."
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KY-SEN
Rand Paul In The '90s: Medicare Is Socialism And Social Security Is A Ponzi Scheme (VIDEO)
Rand Paul
Welcome to Rand Paul Says The Darndest Things: '90s Edition.
In the late 1990s, Paul -- then a simple ophthalmologist and president of Kentucky Taxpayers United -- appeared on several episodes "Kentucky Tonight," a roundtable-style show on public television. He talked about the elderly dying at the hands of Medicare rationing; the need to privatize Social Security, which he called "a Ponzi scheme;" and the rights of the government to invest in racist companies.
We at TPM watched all five hours of footage, courtesy of KET, and compressed them into three minutes: The best of retro Rand Paul.
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