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FreedomWorks Foundation director of the Regulatory Action Center, Ken Cuccinelli, released the following statement on President Donald Trump’s executive order on President Obama’s Clean Power Plan rules:
FreedomWorks will host its fourth stop of the Constitution Revival Tour in West Palm Beach, Florida on Friday, September 23. FreedomWorks kicked off the tour in May in Columbus, Ohio and continued it in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in June and Sacramento, California in July.
On August 22, the comment period closed on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) new proposed rule seeking to outlaw arbitration agreements for consumer financial products. Leading the opposition to the unnecessary and overreaching rule, FreedomWorks Foundation generated nearly 15,000 responses opposed to the rule.
If you thought the Keystone Pipeline permitting farce was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet. On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced new regulatory guidance which will inject the same ignorant obsessions of so-called climate change activists into the permitting process of the entire federal government. This action means that bureaucrats and their radical environmentalist allies will now be able to take the same tactics of death-by-permitting-delay seen in the case of Keystone and apply them to every other project affected by the federal National Environmental Policy Act. This means roads, bridges, mines, housing developments, pipelines, and more will now be held hostage to that tiny minority of Americans who would like nothing more than to return this country to the Stone Age.
In arguing for the states to ratify the Constitution, James Madison wrote in Federalist 47, "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." In our time, the regulatory state has become a form of tyranny led by bureaucrats who have wrested power from Congress and even influenced the Supreme Court to bow to their power.