On Tuesday, the North Carolina General Assembly overrode five bills that had been vetoed by Governor Roy Cooper. Since the legislature held its first override vote in March, there have been a total of 19 veto overrides this year.
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 2:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Cooper vetoed House Bill 600, which would provide further regulatory relief for North Carolina families and businesses.
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 3:15 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Includes needed permitting and process review reforms, provides regulatory certainty, and expedites permitting of key projects funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill supported by Tillis
Published: Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 @ 10:23 am
By: Thom Tillis
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“There's a deep state in every bureaucratic agency.”
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 1:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina Mark Robinson released the following statement
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 11:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Cooper signed Executive Order 225, extending certain DHHS regulatory waivers to facilitate the provision of health care and vaccination efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, October 28th, 2021 @ 6:40 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper won a second term. But he had no coattails.
Published: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 1:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper issued an Executive Order returning regulatory authority for skilled nursing facilities to the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS).
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 @ 9:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump has led a historic effort to eliminate unnecessary and costly regulations that hurt American businesses and families.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2020 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper Issued Executive Order No. 139, which will provide additional regulatory flexibility to help ensure capacity in the state’s health care system and improve its ability to effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 9:37 am
By: Governor's Office
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Money topped the list of needs from North Carolina’s institutions of higher education in a meeting Thursday, April 2, of the House Select Committee on COVID-19 Education Working Group.
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2020 @ 10:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One thing about the administrative state in North Carolina is that it carries on regardless of the party in power.
Published: Monday, September 30th, 2019 @ 8:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Because Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly have remained deadlocked for weeks over passage of a new state budget, you might think nothing much of consequence is happening in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 @ 11:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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History is full of examples of failed government reforms. Sometimes those failures stem from government agents’ inability or unwillingness to translate legislative reformers’ ideas into action.
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 @ 4:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 290, originally filed as the Distillery Regulatory Reform Bill, will soon become law.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2019 @ 1:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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House Bill 536, ABC Omnibus Regulatory Reform, cleared the N.C. House, 91-24, on Tuesday, July 9, and was sent to the Senate.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2019 @ 2:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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House Bill 536, ABC Omnibus Regulatory Reform, has cleared the N.C. House committee on Rules, Calendar, and Operations and heads to the floor for a vote.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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President Trump has reduced a historic number of burdensome and unnecessary regulations and stopped the massive growth of new regulations.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 11:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump at Signing of Executive Order Establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 6:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A bill filed Tuesday, April 2, in the N.C. House would dramatically revamp how the state governs liquor sales and distribution, including a provision allowing for Sunday sales.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 7:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Milton Friedman once observed that "nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 @ 11:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It's great to have everybody and have a little meeting. We're going to go over deregulation and some other things.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 7:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Trump Administration's regulatory reform efforts have saved American families and businesses $23 billion in Fiscal Year 2018 by getting rid of unduly burdensome and unnecessary regulation.
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 5:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. House of Representative on Friday, July 13, voted to close a loophole in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, which requires agencies to curtail the regulatory costs on local governments and businesses
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 6:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nuclear power advocates are jumping on the climate change bandwagon. They are repackaging the industry as a clean energy alternative, and making a case for government subsidies
Published: Friday, May 11th, 2018 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government red tape slows down the economy. That is a consistent finding in economic research literature
Published: Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 2:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday evening, the media world went gaga over Fox News' Shepard Smith "debunking" the so-called Uranium One scandal.
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 @ 8:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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I've enjoyed following the drama surrounding location of Amazon's second headquarters and, make no mistake, drama it certainly has been
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 11:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key positions in his Administration.
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2017 @ 10:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The General Assembly tried but failed Thursday to clean up its act
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2017 @ 1:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-introduced the Separation of Powers Restoration Act (SOPRA), legislation that would restore accountability to the regulatory process and ensure proper judicial review, empowering the courts-not agencies-to interpret all questions of law, including both statut
Published: Thursday, July 20th, 2017 @ 5:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper released the following statement on HB 589
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 12:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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In this age of cronyism and meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss partisan turnstile D.C. politics, maybe it really does take an "outsider" executive to give up power voluntarily
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 @ 12:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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