Word: curtail
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Current Republican legislation will curtail regulatory tyranny. Not only will the EPA's plans to make water cleaner be halted, but the EPA will be forbidden from enforcing current regulations regarding storm water runoff, sewage overflow and toxic dumping. Hundreds of millions of dollars that the EPA provides to assist states in paying for water and sewage treatment plants will be eliminated. The EPA's influence in curbing radon in drinking water and cancer-causing substances in food will be eviscerated. Guidelines and programs to decrease air pollution will be scrapped or reduced in funding. Even the ban on chlorofluorocarbons...
...House voted to instruct its team of conference negotiators with the Senate to drop a string of restrictions on the Environmental Protection Agency that the House had previously attached to an EPA spending bill. Moderate Republicans joined ranks with Democrats to repudiate the controversial restrictions, which would severely curtail the agency's enforcement of air- and water-quality laws...
...moral-values maven Bill Bennett, he countered with a five-page letter portraying Powell as a lesser evil, on the grounds that pro-life conservatives would have a better chance to reduce abortions under Powell than under Clinton. Early in October, Bennett sent Powell articles on how to curtail abortions without a constitutional amendment. Some conservatives were quietly pleased last week when Powell, who had described himself as firmly pro-choice in September, took a more circumspect line. The change in tone is one reason why Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, rather than denouncing Powell, plans to press Gingrich...
...current [welfare reform] measures clearly aim to curtail child-bearing," Strossen said. "But the [abortion policies] clearly want to curtail abortions, so the only choice, it seems, is abstinence...
Rejecting an attempt by North Carolina's Jesse Helms to curtail federal funding for AIDS treatment--an effort that Helms laced with fulminations over the "offensive and revolting conduct" of homosexuals--the Senate voted 97 to 3 to fully reauthorize such spending...