House Republicans’ fast-track push for federal regulatory reform could be derailed by a nationwide spate of railroad accidents, including the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, that forced hundreds to flee their homes for days in fear that leaking toxic chemicals would explode.
With residents exposed to still-undetermined health risks from that derailment, and more than two dozen train wrecks—another Norfolk Southern train derailed March 6 in Springfield, Illinois—reported to the National Transportation Safety Board already in 2023, Democrats are fiercely opposing Republican bills targeting the “administrative state” by reforming the regulatory and rule-making processes.
Among those GOP bills is the proposed “Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2023,” or REINS Act, introduced by Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) with 177 co-sponsors….