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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Government Regulation Is on the Rise Under Obama. This Infographic Explains Why.

The number and cost of government regulations continued to climb in 2014, intensifying Washington’s control over the economy and Americans’ lives.

The addition of 27 new major rules pushed the tally for the Obama administration’s first six years to 184, with scores of other rules in the pipeline. The cost of just these 184 rules is estimated by regulators to be nearly $80 billion annually, although the actual cost of this massive expansion of the administrative state is obscured by the large number of rules for which costs have not been fully quantified.

The infographic below chronicles the trends in rulemaking activity as featured in “Red Tape Rising,” a new report that The Heritage Foundation will highlight in an event Tuesday with Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and James Lankford, R-Okla.
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ABC Policy Required Stephanopolous to Disclose His $75,000 Clinton Foundation Donation

ABC News policy required that George Stephanopolous disclose his contributions to the Clinton Foundation to management before covering stories related to it, according to an ABC spokesman who responded to a Washington Free Beacon inquiry.

Stephanopolous issued an on-air apology on Friday’s Good Morning America after it was discovered by the Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles that he had covered news directly related to the Clinton Foundation without disclosing that he contributed $75,000 to it.

“Staff need to disclose personal donations to a charitable organization to us before covering a story related to that organization,” said Julie Townsend, who heads ABC’s news communications. “He had not disclosed the Foundation donations to us before he interviewed Peter Schweizer,” the author of Clinton Cash.

Townsend also noted that “employees are not permitted to make political contributions,” but that “personal charitable donations are allowed.”

Stephanopolous confirmed his contributions to the Clinton Foundation on Thursday, stating that ...

Girls With Guns

Despite the fact that the U.S. House of Representatives has voted down repeated attempts to encourage the recruitment of illegal immigrants into the military, we are seeing yet another attempt to encourage such recruitment recently inserted into a must-pass defense funding bill.

Even worse, the push to recruit illegal immigrants is happening at a time when U.S. citizens are being downsized from the military or turned away by recruiters.

The House Armed Services Committee recently approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that encourages the secretary of defense to declare that illegal immigrants categorized under President Barack Obama’s first executive amnesty—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)—are “vital” to America’s national interest and thus eligible to enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces. Congressman Ruben Gallego’s, D-Ariz., amendment passed the...