The 2004 decision was aimed at easing regulatory burdens that the European Union was about to impose on the foreign operations of United States investment banks.
Instead, Mr. Bush has proposed several initiatives to spur the electric power industry: opening protected land in the West to drilling for natural gas, investing in cleaner-burning coal-fired plants, and easing regulatory burdens on pipeline and power plant operators.
It's still too early to know exactly what President-elect Donald Trump intends to do, but he's spoken repeatedly about easing regulatory burdens on small companies.
His 11-point economic package sought to help County businesses hit by the recession by easing regulatory burdens.He launched his Smart Growth Initiative, a bold program to leverage and swap County-owned properties to update County facilities while opening up economic development and transit-oriented housing around the Shady Grove Metro and in the heart of the County's biotech industry.
President Reagan, who has sought to ease regulatory burdens on industry, has opposed federally required passive restraints on the ground that the costs outweigh the benefits.
"We will continue to consider appropriate ways to ease regulatory burdens while preserving core reforms — strong levels of capital and liquidity, stress testing, and resolution planning — so that banks can provide the credit to families and businesses necessary to sustain a prosperous economy," he said.
Trump signed an executive order within hours of taking office that directed federal agencies to ease regulatory burdens created by the ACA; later, the Internal Revenue Service said it was going to send taxpayers their refunds even if they failed to send proof that they were insured.
This comes shortly after Congress passed the JOBS Act, which eases regulatory burdens on firms like Groupon that seek to capitalise on their dynamism through a speedy IPO.Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, criticised China's big banks for acting like a "monopoly" and said private capital should be allowed "to flow into the finance sector".
Coal's losing market share in the power industry, notwithstanding these eased regulatory burdens, because natural gas prices have stayed low and utility-scale solar costs have declined to the point where solar is, in many places, the cheapest way for a utility to add new capacity.
Marilyn Tavenner, CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, praised the aspects of the regulation designed to ease regulatory burdens on insurers and impose stricter requirements on consumers.
During her discussion with Iowa business owners, Clinton vowed to ease regulatory burdens on small businesses, rather than on the big Wall Street banks that have thrived in the years since the Great Recession.
