Caro Claire Burke
speaker
4,515 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Caro Claire Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Liberal legalism, and through it, liberal government, had become process-obsessed rather than outcomes-oriented.
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It had convinced itself that the state's legitimacy would be earned through compliance with an endless catalog of rules and restraints rather than through getting things done for the people it claimed to serve.
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Right.
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fears reflect, in part, the age in which the rules were written.
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The 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which governs much of the federal government's bureaucratic workings, was adopted to soothe the jangled nerves of legal and business communities alarmed by the New Deal and the muscular wartime exercise of state power.
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got Halliburton.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Dude, hot take.
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Donald Trump should have gone for trains.
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That would have given him his third
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choo-choo.
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alliteration.
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Abundance liberals are right that NEPA needs to be reformed.
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What they don't say is that progressives aren't primarily responsible for blocking that reform.
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In 2022, the Senate took up a permitting reform bill authored by centrist Democrat Joe Manchin — oh, here we go — that would have greatly restricted the ability to bring NEPA lawsuits.
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The measure would also have strengthened the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, to preempt state and local opposition to the building of electric transmission lines that cross jurisdictions.
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Another key item on the abundance liberal wish list.
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A strong majority of Democrats voted for the legislation.
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An equally strong majority of Republicans opposed it.
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