Establish governmentbacked barriers of entry into professions and fields based on the allegation that the general safety and welfare of the community is served and protected by them. The reality is that connected Interest Groups favor occupational licensing for its anticompetitive effects. The fees and restrictions instituted by occupational licensure prevent entrepreneurial innovators who often come from modest backgrounds and represent vulnerable groups from efficiently providing consumers with better goods and services. The onus of these laws falls disproportionately on minority communities who would benefit from the elimination of burdensome regulations and the expense of Economic Freedom and mobility. The Johnson Center for political economy recently did a study that was published in 2018 called the cause of occupational cost of occupational licensing in alabama. We have dan sutter with us today who is the executive director of the Johnson Center for political economy. Concludes t
Tremendous job he is doing in arkansas and were grateful to have her on board and like i said were pleased that youre here and all that you represent. Thank you. Thank you, senator boseman. Were going to start with you, ali. Im going to follow the direction of senator carper and take your short name, all right . You are recognized. Chairman and house Ranking Member boxer and members of the committee my name is ali mirzakhalili, delawares director of air quality. I thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I would like to share with you delawares view of the respective roles and responsibilities of the epa, state and the u. S. Congress with respect to complying with various environmental statutes and associated regulatory actions to protect Public Health and environment. The Clean Air Act has been a huge success, preventing literally hundreds of thousands of premature deaths as well as averting millions of incidents and mobility. The Health Benefits associated with the Clean Air A
A reminder, well have live coverage of mrs. Reagans funeral from the president ial library in simi valley friday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. White house spokesman josh earnest took reporters questions about the Supreme Court vacancy, last nights president ial primary and this is a one hour portion of todays briefing. Good afternoon, everybody. I do not have anything off the top so we can go straight to questions. Darlene, would you like to start . Do you have anything to add to your reports that u. S. Special forces are questioning the head of the Islamic State units trying to develop Nuclear Weapons . Unfortunately, i do not. Ive seen those reports. At this point im still constrained im still constrained by some Operational Security concerns from answering them. You do know there are u. S. Military forces that are on the ground in iraq that are part of these forces that are dedicated to carrying out raids, collecting intelligence and where possible getting access to high value targets, but