The REINS Act: Why Congress Should Hold Its Horses
This blog has been updated since its original 2011 publication. The House is poised to begin the 115 th Congress with the Regulations from the Executive in...
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Reality Check: Government Shutdown Still Looms
The sudden, if likely brief, "Era of Good Feelings" ushered in by the bipartisan budget agreement is obscuring some major battles yet to come - battles that...
Carbon Copy: Senate Report Trots Out Old and Baseless Charges
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and a proud and unrepentant climate denier, yesterday released a...
Sound and Fury: NRDC E-Mails Show Advocacy, not Collusion
On November 24th, NRDC turned over to Senator David Vitter (R-LA) and Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) about 450 e-mails they had sought in their investigation...
What Senators Talk About When They Talk About "Collusion"
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has been periodically releasing e-mail exchanges between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NRDC in an effort to prove...
Democracy 101: Or, What Does David Vitter Want?
On Tuesday, NRDC received an investigative letter from Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and four of their colleagues, demanding “all...