GOP is trying to kill regulation by stealth

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The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act in the Republicans' Contract with America would make the most important health and safety regulations unenforceable and erode agencies' ability to make new rules. The act's pretext is that reduced regulation would spur economic growth. Republican pleas for less government are based on mythology, since the government as a proportion of GDP has never been smaller since World War II. Since 1981, all regulations have been reviewed for need and cost-effectiveness. As a result, regulation outflow is smaller under Pres Clinton than it was during the Bush administration. Most regulations now in force were issued under the prior two Republican administrations.

Analysis, Deregulation, Republican Party (United States)

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He wrote the book on securities regulation

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Louis Loss wrote "Securities Regulation," the seminal treatise in US securities law. The book had gone through 3 editions by the time of his death at the age of 83. Loss was asked by Pres Kennedy to chair the SEC in 1961, but he turned the opportunity down. He was active with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws on the Uniform Securities Act, a state "blue sky" law that is still used by a majority of states. The American Law Institute also used Loss as the chief reporter of its Federal Securities Code.

Securities, Criticism and interpretation, Authorship, Bibliography, Securities Regulation (Book), Loss, Louis

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Should businesses make special accommodations for those who smoke as well as those who are trying to quit? Current federal law provides no clear answers

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The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to modify the work environment or the manner under which the position is customarily performed so that handicapped people, including smokers, can perform the essential functions of their position. In other words, corporations must provide employees the means to deal with their nicotine addition and so cigarette breaks may last, but so also may formal programs, similar to employee-assistance programs, to help smokers stop the smoking habit.

Laws, regulations and rules, Smokers, Physically disabled persons

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