More Mad Libs-style anti-regulatory amendments to appropriations bills (just fill in the blanks and you're scoring points with the corporate-conservative coalition!). Latest: Tiahrt's amendment to the energy-water appropriations bill would have required the following: "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to promulgate regulations without consideration of the effect of such regulations on the competitiveness of American businesses." In other words, as with his proposed amendment to the homeland security bill, Tiahrt proposed making it impossible for our federal agencies to protect us when those protections would impose any costs to the corporations that cause the very harms from which we need protections. Once again, his amendment was withdrawn when a point of order was raised against it.