The 2010 health-care law that’s expected to expand insurance coverage to 27 million Americans in the next decade isn’t cheap: About $1.2 trillion through 2022. There’s another cost, less well known: The time Americans will spend complying with the law...
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A cardboard cut-out of President Barack Obama in a tent defending "Obamacare" at a street fair in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Health-Care’s Added Cost: Compliance
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The backup camera and EV logo from a 2011 Nissan Leaf Zero Emission Electric car.
Rear-View Camera Rule: A Year Overdue, Delayed Again
Safety advocates who want to see rearview cameras in all cars and light trucks to avoid backover deaths have been waiting for a $2.7 billion regulation that the Department of Transportation was required by law to issue a year ago....
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Under Lisa Jackson, the EPA negotiated fuel-efficiency standards with automakers and set the first-ever rules for mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants
EPA’s Jackson Leaving in January
Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is leaving in January. The EPA director’s four-year tenure has been marked by controversy over regulation of matters such as the Keystone pipeline. President Barack Obama suggested today that Jackson’s tenure also...
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The interlock ignition system which requires the driver to blow into a tube to prove sobriety before driving.
Ignition Interlocks for First-Time DUI Offenders?
AAA, the motorist group with more than 53 million members, is endorsing the National Transportation Safety Board’s call for mandatory use of ignition interlock devices for all drunken-driving offenders. AAA issued its statement five days before New Year’s Eve, which...
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Rep. Ed Whitfield during the Rally for Coal at the River Discovery Center in downtown Paducah, Ky.
EPA Deemed ‘Rogue’ by Republican Urging Obama to Rein in Agency
A Kentucky Republican says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has gone rogue, reviving his campaign to rein in the regulator. Representative Ed Whitfield, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s panel on energy and power, quoted from court cases...
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Moderator Jim Lehrer, center, asks President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to respect the order of speaking during the Presidential Debate.
Obama-Romney Debate: Wall Street
“Regulation is essential. You can’t have the free market work if you don’t have regulation,” Republican Mitt Romney said tonight. “At the same time, regulation can become excessive… With some of the regulation that has passed during the president’s term,”...
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Mitt Romney is given a tour by Google Vice President Jim Lecinski at the Google Chicago headquarters.
Romney Adviser Criticizes ‘Phony’ Google Antitrust Probe
Charlie Black, a veteran Republican strategist and adviser to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, criticized “phony antitrust suits” at an event co-sponsored by Google Inc., a lobbying client whose competitive practices are under U.S. investigation. “Phony antitrust suits that are...
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A transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of E. coli O157:H7.
Pelosi’s `E. Coli Club:’ Republicans
“The E. coli Club” — Nancy Pelosi’s term for the Republicans. “Bless their hearts, it’s a philosophy that the Republicans in Congress have, and bless their hearts, they act upon their beliefs,” Pelosi, the former House speaker and current Democratic...
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Sanford "Sandy" Weill
Banking’s Sandy Weill: Latter-Day Nobel Playing with Dynamite?
Sanford Weill is blowing Washington minds. The former Citigroup CEO who helped engineer the country’s current financial system in the late ’90s says he now thinks investment banks and commercial banks should be split up. His change of heart voiced...
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An automated teller machine (ATM) in San Francisco.
The Owner of This ATM May Charge You an Added $3 Fee Per Transaction
Call it a sign of the regulatory times: Banks want relief from a requirement to post signs on automated teller machines advising customers of the fee they’ll pay for a transaction. That relief is called H.R. 4367. Chris Strohm reports...
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