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Jun 11, 2022

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Good Stewardship Rides High in Texas: Conservation Nation E9

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RealClear Policy: Lead Ban Would Undermine True Conservation, Outdoor Access

Fishing and hunting are cherished pastimes enjoyed by millions each year. But a perennial effort to ban lead would make it harder for Americans to recreate on our public lands.

Despite touting hook and bullet activities, the Biden administration is potentially settling with Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to undo the expansion of 2.2 million National Wildlife Refuge lands opened in 2020 to new hunting and fishing opportunities. More troubling, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) may cede to the radical organization’s demands to ban lead use under the guise of protecting endangered or threatened species. A bill from Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) similarly echoes this goal.

With more Americans finding refuge in the Great Outdoors in response to the pandemic, however, this shortsighted effort would roll back these monumental gains.

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Townhall: Biden Administration Continues Waging War on Freelancing

The Biden administration doesn’t know when to take the L— especially in their efforts to undermine freelancing.

With the Big Labor-backed Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act currently stalled in Congress and freelance foe David Weil failing to get his old Department of Labor gig back, shouldn’t they take a hint?

Sadly, they aren’t.

Biden’s Labor Department continues to wage their war on independent contracting. Why? They have a short window left before the midterms to make every American worker a unionized employee.

Biden Admin Ignoring Court Decision Restoring Trump IC Rule

By taking an ax to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to make all workers employees, this administration is violating norms and dismissing economic trends favoring flexible work arrangements.

The Labor Department has ignored a March 2022 federal court ruling that deemed their withdrawal of the Trump-era independent contractor rule “unlawful.” Adding insult to injury, they’re appealing the decision.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled the department violated the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 by only offering a 19-day comment period on the “delayed” IC rule. Governmental agencies must allow 30-60 notice-and-comment periods.

The Coalition for Workforce Innovation et al. v. Walsh decision reads like this, “Having vacated the Delay Rule, the court turns to the Withdrawal Rule. Plaintiffs claim that the Withdrawal Rule is arbitrary and capricious, in violation of the APA. Again, the court agrees.”

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