Obama seeks power to merge agencies

Ben Feller The Associated Press via My Way News 1/13/2012

President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for greater power to shrink the federal government, and his first idea is merging six sprawling trade and commerce agencies whose overlapping programs can be baffling to businesses, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

Obama […]

Obama Fishing Czar Divides Democrats

Why John Kerry and Barney Frank are lining up against the administration’s “catch share” policy

Ira Stoll Reason Magazine 10/24/2011

The next battle over President Obama’s job-killing regulations may take place on the Atlantic Coast, where fishermen, and the senators and congressmen who represent them, are voicing mounting frustration at the Obama administration’s “catch-share” rules […]

GDP report shows economy even weaker than expected

Philip Klein Washington Examiner 7/29/2011

In another sign of economic weakness, the gross domestic product grew at a lower than expected 1.3 percent during the second quarter, and the already weak first quarter number was revised downward to an anemic 0.4 percent, the Commerce Department reported today.

Economists, who had already been scaling back their […]

East Coast fishermen say the new Obama job-killing regulations are killing the industry

Poor Distraught Fisherman are Attempting Suicide After One Year of Obama Job-Killing Regulations

Jim Hoft GatewayPundit 5/10/2011

WMUR reported:

Fishermen on New Hampshire’s Seacoast are warning that new fishing regulations could destroy their industry and have already caused them severe emotional stress.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has sent a team to Seabrook to look […]

Obama’s National Climate Service Defunded

Climate Depot 4/12/2011

Last Friday’s budget deal blocks funding for the Obama administration’s National Climate Service (NCS).

The bill reads:

SEC. 1348. None of the funds made available by this division may be used to implement, establish, or create a NOAA Climate Service as described in the ‘‘Draft NOAA Climate Service Strategic Vision and Framework’’ […]

White House to Push for Privacy Bill

Jennifer Valentino-Devries and Emily Steel The Wall Street Journal 3/16/2011

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress Wednesday to pass a “privacy bill of rights” to protect Americans from intrusive data gathering, amid growing concern about the tracking and targeting of Internet users.

Lawrence E. Strickling, an assistant secretary of commerce, is expected to call […]

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