Today the Oklahoma chapter of Americans for Prosperity Foundation released a study entitled: “EPA Overreach: Higher Cost, Less Energy, Greater Risk.”
The study conducted by William Yeatman, the Assistant Director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), serves as an independent analysis of the PSO Settlement with the EPA and Sierra Club and the forthcoming cost increases to Oklahoma utility ratepayers.
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In a Washington Times piece today, Valerie Richardson writes that rural Coloradans angered by liberal policies on guns and energy will soon vote on breaking away to become the 51 state.
Richardson writes: “You’ve got North Carolina and North Dakota, so why not Northern Colorado?
“Voters in several rural Colorado counties will be asked whether they want to form a new state tentatively named Northern Colorado in the November election, a reaction to the Democrat-controlled state legislature’s ‘war on rural Colorado.’
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Avik Roy writing for Forbes today notes that in recent months, President Obama and his subordinates have waived or delayed a number of Obamacare’s notable features, such as the law’s employer mandate, and its procedures for protecting taxpayers from fraud and identity theft. Earlier this month, in that context, I obtained a heretofore-unpublished memorandum from the Congressional Research Service. The CRS, Congress’ non-partisan in-house think tank, compiled 82 deadlines that the Affordable Care Act mandates upon the first three years of its own implementation. Remarkably, it turns out that the White House has missed half of the deadlines legally required by the ACA. And some of those deadlines remain unmet to this day.
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Sen. Dan Newberry with “political friends” at OK Capital
Oklahoma continues to get great news regarding revenue growth. This week it was announced the state would be adding another significant sum to the Rainy Day Fund, which has now reached a balance of $535.2 million. Our economy is still strong and growing, with all signs pointing to continued job growth and development. Solid revenue growth also bodes well for our continuing efforts to gradually reduce and ultimately eliminate the state’s income tax.
OK Senator Jim Inhofe
Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, says new revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance program suggest the Obama administration has “abused the authority granted to them by Congress” and that he will investigate the matter.
Inhofe’s statement shows a growing concern on Capitol Hill about the scope of the NSA’s intelligence gathering and adds to the calls for additional congressional oversight.
