Bush, Cruz Promise To Take on Federal Government Actions if Elected
Contenders for the GOP presidential nomination would dismantle parts of the federal government relevant to telecom if elected, they said Tuesday during a Fox Business Network debate. “On the regulatory side I think we need to repeal every rule that…
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Barack Obama has in terms of work in progress, every one of them,” said Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor. “And start over. For those that are already in existence, the regulation of the Internet, we have to start over, but we ought to do that.” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a member of the Commerce Committee, touted his plan to ax many parts of the government. “Today we rolled out a spending plan,” Cruz said during the debate. He outlined “$500 billion in specific cuts -- five major agencies that I would eliminate.” He would kill the Department of Commerce and the CPB, the latter of which he said should be privatized. “For decades, the Commerce Department has funded useless projects,” the Cruz campaign website said in one explanation of the plan. “That said, there are several functions that should be retained through other departments or agencies, including the functions of the … U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the National Institute of Standards and Technology” and NTIA. Cruz also promised to aggressively pursue a smaller federal government: “A Cruz Administration will institute a freeze on the hiring of new federal civilian employees across the executive branch,” he said on his campaign website. “For those agencies in which it is determined that a vacant position needs to be filled, I will authorize the hiring of a maximum ratio of one person for every three who leave.”