Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016/Government regulations

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Jeb Bush suspended his presidential campaign on February 20, 2016.^[1]

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At the fourth Republican primary debate, in a discussion on economic growth, Jeb Bush said "On the regulatory side I think we need to repeal every rule that Barack Obama has in terms of work in progress, every one of them. And start over.^[2]

Bush wrote an op-ed in USA Today on October 7, 2015, to proclaim he “intend[s] to shake up Washington.” As part of his reform agenda, Bush said he would work to establish a balanced budget amendment, a six-year lobbying ban on former members of Congress, congressional term limits and the reduction of the federal workforce by 10 percent.^[3]

On September 22, 2015, Bush proposed a “regulatory budget” designed to ensure that the cost of any new regulation would be offset by the savings of another, a proposal that could threaten the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. He also advocated for many regulations to “repealed or reformed,” including net neutrality rules for the internet and limits on carbon emissions.^[4]^[5] Bush also said Obama administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations were among “the most onerous Obama rules and regulations,” and added that he would repeal the EPA carbon rules for power plants, waters of the United States rule and coal ash disposal rule.^[6]

Speaking at Florida State University on July 20, 2015, Bush called for government reform. He expressed support for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, reform of military procurement procedures, a presidential line-item veto right, hiring fewer federal employees and instituting a six-year waiting period before former congressmen can lobby.^[7]

Breitbart reported April 21, 2015, that Bush said on the Michael Medved Show that he would undo the president’s DACA and DAPA programs if elected, and touted immigration reform that would narrow family petitioning and expand economic immigrants. Bush criticized the president for giving millions of people temporary status via the executive branch. He continued, “I think the better answer is to fix the immigration problem, is to solve it the way — the regular order way, which is to go to Congress, have a proposal, work on a bipartisan fashion to fix a broken immigration system.”^[8]

On December 19, 2011, Bush defended capitalism and the right to economic freedom in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal. Bush praised Rep. Paul Ryan's phrase "The right to rise," which Bush described as a "core concept of economic freedom." He wrote, "The right to rise does not require a libertarian utopia to exist. Rather, it requires fewer, simpler and more outcome-oriented rules. Rules for which an honest cost-benefit analysis is done before their imposition. Rules that sunset so they can be eliminated or adjusted as conditions change. Rules that have disputes resolved faster and less expensively through arbitration than litigation."^[9]

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