Six Bills To Fight Cronyism
Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act
Washington should not be using taxpayer money to pick winners and losers in the energy industry. Consumer-driven, free-market competition provides a much better way to ensure Americans have access to reliable, affordable energy. The Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act would level the playing field for all energy producers.
Export-Import Termination Act
The Export-Import bank is hardly more than a slush fund for large businesses and Washington’s favored corporations. Hard-working Americans shouldn’t be subsidizing these companies, while the federal government unfairly tilts the playing field at the expense of other American businesses and taxpayers. The Export-Import Termination Act will phase out the Export-Import bank.
The Transportation Empowerment Act
Today, the federal highway program is funded by a gasoline tax of 18.4 cents on every gallon sold at the pump. That money is supposed to be going into steel, concrete, and asphalt in the ground. Instead, too much of it is being siphoned off by bureaucrats and special interests in Washington. Under this bill, the federal gas tax would be phased down over five years from 18.4 cents per gallon, to 3.7 cents. And highway authority would be transferred proportionately from the federal government to the states.
Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act (REINS Act)
The cost of federal regulations is crushing businesses and hurting consumers. By requiring Congress to approve any new rule with a major impact on the economy ($100 million), the REINS Act would give the American people a greater voice in reducing the undue burden of excessive regulations and help hold executive agencies accountable.
Higher Education Reform and College Opportunity
Under the federal Higher Education Act, students are eligible for Title IV student loans and grants only if they attend formally accredited institutions. That makes some sense, for purposes of quality control. Except that under the law, only degree-issuing academic institutions are allowed to be accredited. And only the U.S. Department of Education gets to say who can be an accreditor.
That is, the federal government today operates a kind of higher-education cartel, with federally approved accreditors using their gatekeeper power to keep out unwanted competition. The Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act would give states the power to create their own, alternative systems of accrediting Title IV-eligible higher education providers.
National Right to Work Act
All hard-working Americans should be free to choose whether or not to join or contribute to a union. By eliminating the forced unionism provisions in the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act, The National Right to Work Act would eliminate government policy that imposes financial burdens on many low-income and middle-class workers who are compelled to support a union.
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