UPDATE: The House moved the vote to last night and passed the bill, 241-175.

$1.8 trillion buys a lot of red tape.

That’s how much the federal regulatory machine is costing Americans each year, according to the 20^th edition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Ten Thousand Commandments report.

This is the first in a World Trade Week blog series that examines a U.S.-E.U. free trade and investment agreement.

In proclaiming World Trade Week (May 19-25, 2013), President Obama again stated his administration’s intention to launch talks for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union. Let’s get started already.

First it was the roofers union who had second thoughts about the health care law. Now other unions are expressing major concerns over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

Crossposted from the Global Intellectual Property Center's blog.