>>> YOURE INVITED to a NOON-ET/9:00-PT live conversation about the series with Martin Kady II, POLITICOs managing editor for policy, who conceived the project at the suggestion of Executive Editor Rick Berke. A POLITICO Pro Special Report, Obamas Power Play, delving into the sweeping impact of the administrations regulatory agenda and executive action. Weve posted separate stories for each of the 10 POLITICO Pro policy areas, plus Stephanie Simon sums up the findings: An in-depth examination of the administrations actions and plans, agency by agency, regulation by regulation, reveals an executive power play thats broad and bold - and intensely ambitious. Far more than he let on in the State of the Union, the president has marshaled the tools of his office to advance policies, many unabashedly liberal, that push deep into everyday life for tens of millions of Americans. He wants to change how power plants operate. And what we buy for lunch. How we travel to work. And how our kids learn math. How our gasoline is formulated. How we light our aquariums. Already, the presidents team has enacted 300 economically significant regulations, far more than Bill Clinton, George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan did in comparable periods. Some of those rules are driven by the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank banking reform, the two big laws Obama pushed through Congress early in his first term, when he had Democratic majorities in both houses. But there is far more. 10 POLICY-SPECIFIC STORIES: A new direction for Fannie, Freddie ... Bypassing Congress on defense cuts ... Going green on transportation ... Obamacare 2.0: More regulation ... Trade: Gun control, global warming ... Cybersecurity struggle ... IRS tea party showdown ... Sweeping higher ed overhaul ... Changing the way we eat ... EPA leads charge on climate change.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:04:13 +0000
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