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This report titled "Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment," dated February 5, 1974, by the staff of the Impeachment Inquiry continues to be the standard for evaluating what meets the constitutional grounds for an impeachable offense.
- Judiciary Committee Staff Impeachment Report ยป
The REINS Act fits into a broader conservative narrative about government overreach. But it comes after a string of disasters in recent years that were tied to government regulators falling short, including:
- the financial crisis of 2008;
- the explosion of the Dixie Crystal sugar refinery of 2008 (killed 14 people);
- the peanut butter salmonella outbreak of 2008-09 (killed 9 people);
- the BP oil spill of 2010 (killed 11 people);
- the West Virginia mining accident of 2010 (killed 29 people).
There is no correlation between regulation and unemployment:
Republicans claim to make rulemaking more efficient, but the RFA would expand the number of rules covered by the RFA and require agencies to perform excessive analysis of regulations that affect or indirectly affect small businesses.