GOP congressman Don Young wants to repeal all regulations since 1991

[The Straight Story]

GOP congressman Don Young wants to repeal all regulations since 1991

Republican congressman Don Young, Alaska's sole House Representative, said Tuesday he was working on legislation to repeal all regulations that have been put into effect since 1991, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

Young, who is 78 years old and has served in the House of Representatives since 1973, said the bill was "very simple."

"I just null and void any regulations passed in the last 20 years," he said during remarks at the Anchorage Downtown Rotary Club. "I picked 20 years ago because it crossed party lines and also we were prosperous at that time. And no new regulations until they can justify them."

Young spokesman Luke Miller said in an e-mailed statement that the legislation, which "is currently being developed," aims to "reverse the regulatory overreach by the executive branch."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20113082-503544.html

[madrchsod]

1. time to put that boy out to pasture....

[roguevalley]

25. believe me, we try. that fat fucker is like a boil. lance it and it comes

back.

[rfranklin]

2. Let's be just like communist China...no regulations

another Republican loon.

[sellitman]

3. Regulate Republicans

Especially old decrepit ones.

[CBHagman]

4. Folly, and nothing but a stunt, because...

...a Democratic Senate isn't going to pass this.

Sorry, but I don't get why the press and the public doesn't simply vilify the GOP House for wasting everyone's time on things that are done just to make a point, to score points, to posture, to run out the clock. If the GOP really wanted to create jobs, they wouldn't be defunding Planned Parenthood and eliminating all post-1991 rules.

Here's Young's contact page:

https://donyoung.house.gov/Contact/default.aspx

WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE
Office of Congressman Don Young
2314 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
T [phone] F [phone]

ANCHORAGE DISTRICT OFFICE
Peterson Tower Building
510 L St, Suite 580
Anchorage, AK 99501-1954
T [phone] F [phone]

FAIRBANKS FIELD OFFICE
Office of Congressman Don Young
101 12th Avenue, # 10
Fairbanks, AK 99701-6275
T [phone] F [phone]

JUNEAU FIELD OFFICE
612 W. Willoughby Avenue, Suite B
P.O. Box 21247
Juneau, Alaska 99802
T [phone] F [phone]

KENAI FIELD OFFICE
805 Frontage Road, Suite 110
Kenai, Alaska 99611
T [phone]

[Arger68]

20. Would that get rid of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act?

If so it might just be worth it!

On edit - sorry, meant to reply to the original message.

[roguevalley]

26. Use my zip code: 99669

[geckosfeet]

5. Wow. What intense logic and critical thinking on display there -

when you compare his mental meanderings to a bran muffin's. It's all relative.

[durablend]

10. Yup, and it's quite clear

That bran muffin plus a potted plant have more of a brain than he apparently does.

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. I don't think you had to add the potted plant to the equation.

[Selatius]

6. I'm willing to entertain the notion if he'll open the floor to amendments

I'd like to add an amendment that completely resurrects the Glass-Steagall Act prohibition against consolidation between investment banks and commercial banks.

Anyone else got amendments to add?

[Vinca]

7. Does that include any regulations pertaining to the testing of cantaloupes?

Listeria for everyone!:woohoo:

[Cirque du So-What]

8. They don't give a damn about people's lives

The current poutrage running throughout the RW blogosphere has to do with regulations concerning endangered hardwoods used in the manufacture of Gibson guitars, whose management is openly flouting the law. When the lawbreakers get raided by the USJD, the wingnutz come a'runnin' to their defense.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/08/31/140090116/why-gibson-guitar-was-raided-by-the-justice-department

Think they can work up much in the way of concern for people's lives? Not so much.

[durablend]

11. Concern for lives costs money

So no wonder whey don't give a shit about it

[drm604]

9. There have to be some unintended consequences in doing something so sweeping.

Obviously this will never pass, but even proposing something so sweeping is irresponsible.

How can blindly repealing 20 years of regulations not have some unintended consequences?

[HappyMe]

12. Lead paint chips and asbestos for all! nt

[RickFromMN]

13. Haven't done the research...but can we have back the regulations from 1991 that we no longer have?

[Javaman]

14. He must have been involved with keating.

or did well when the market sank back in '87.

I think he's off his meds.

I wonder if a psychological screening goes along with the reps yearly physical.

[Bandit]

15. Wonder how many he voted for in those twenty years?

He is the original Tea Bagger..........by that I mean batshit crazy Republican..

[dembotoz]

16. they just get sillier and sillier

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. It's threads like these that make me realize how much I miss the Top Ten Idiots.

[JVS]

19. He's hiding something. Nobody is that stupid. There was some regulation passed in 1991...

that some very rich donor wants lifted.

[PSUDem]

21. Will it null and void the Patriot Act?

Or is that asking too much?

[Thav]

22. No, that'll stay in effect

What he REALLY means is all regulations that prevent corporations from systematically abusing the environment, the populace, and employees to extract the maximum profit will be repealed.

Any regulation that allows a company to profit will remain on the books.

[Enrique]

23. this would be a good question for the GOP debates

ask each candidate how far back they want to go. I'd expect they'd all be B.C.

[Fuzz]

24. No thinking at all. Perfect republican legislation.

[louslobbs]

27. lol......I'm sure he does........lol.

Lou