This week in regulation
Fresh off a two-week spring break, Congress returns this week to tackle a full slate of regulatory issues spanning the environment, the financial sector and the rulemaking process itself. Some...
View ArticleWhite House unveils regulatory agenda
The White House unveiled its semiannual regulatory agenda Friday, detailing its plans for thousands of rules in the pipeline at agencies across the federal government. The release is the fourth...
View ArticleThe delegate-and-forget-about-it doctrine and government's fourth branch
It's been a long time coming, but structural reforms to the regulatory process are finally starting to reach the mainstream. Presidential candidates, and sitting members of Congress alike, are...
View ArticleWH office warns agencies against 'midnight regulations'
The Obama administration has advised federal agencies to finish their highest priority rule-makings this summer to avoid a burst of "midnight regulations" before President Obama leaves office.In a memo...
View ArticleLiberal group stands with Warren against bipartisan regs reform package
Liberal activist organization Credo Action has launched a petition aimed at destroying a regulatory reform package that the group says would weaken Wall Street watchdog agencies.The petition, which has...
View ArticleTransparency takes center stage at hearing on midnight regulations
Transparency in the rulemaking process took center stage at a hearing Wednesday focused on midnight regulations.“Even with subpoena power, this committee is having a hard time getting transparency from...
View ArticleGroup braces for $113B in looming Obama regulations
A conservative advocacy group estimates that the regulations President Obama will issue in his final months in office will cost $113 billion.The new analysis from American Action Forum (AAF) out...
View ArticleBiz groups push for regulatory reform in new Congress
More than 300 business and industry groups are calling on House leadership to make regulatory reform legislation a priority in the new Congress.In a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on...
View ArticleTrump picks fitting administrator to prune new regulatory environment
On April 7, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Neomi Rao as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The announcement did not ignite the...
View ArticleOne forgotten agency can curb alarming growth of regulation
President Trump continues to scale back the regulatory state — an effort that dates back nearly 40 years, when President Reagan cut the number of pages of the federal registry by 25 percent and issued...
View ArticleCongressional Review Act rises again!
A major accomplishment of the last Congress was to reinvigorate the Congressional Review Act (CRA), by using it aggressively to review burdensome rules issued by regulatory agencies. Most were costly,...
View ArticleEnvironmental regulations have become impossible to follow
Although major federal environmental statutes haven’t changed substantially in decades, their implementation by the administrative agencies that enforce them has become almost whimsical. There is...
View ArticleDangers of the regulatory state: Powerful bureaucrats
The growth of the regulatory state — the unelected branch of U.S. government that writes and enforces legally binding rules — is well-documented. At the federal level, the Mercatus Center estimates...
View ArticleTrump orders agencies to cut regulations that 'inhibit economic...
An executive order signed by President Trump Tuesday directs agencies to consider what sort of deregulatory action they might take that could spur economic growth.The order directs agency heads to...
View ArticleHow agencies should implement the regulatory 'bill of rights'
Last week, President Trump’s regulatory czar Paul Ray, head of the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), issued a “best practices” memo instructing...
View ArticleTrump's enduring legacy on regulation
President Trump will be remembered by the public as the only president to be impeached twice, as well as for his over-the-top social media persona. However, scholars who take a deeper look at the...
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