In April 2026, the White House Council of Economic Advisers issued the 2026 Economic Report of the President. Though seemingly not much noticed to date, Chapter 2 of that report is titled “Promoting Prosperity through Regulatory Reform”.In brief, Chapter 2 makes the case that the growth of federal regulation has imposed significant costs on the […]
Among the 161 Executive Orders that President Trump has issued during his second term through June 12, 2025, at least nine relate to federal regulation. These are identified in paragraph 6 below. (The designation “at least nine” is to recognize that the definitional boundaries of which executive orders relate to federal regulation are somewhat subjective […]
Last week National Affairs journal published my essay on “The Regulatory Pendulum”. The article primarily concerns the topic of regulations that are issued and revoked as new Presidential administrations replace previous ones. It is available here.
In the summer of 2016, the ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice prepared and approved a report with recommendations to the next President-Elect, titled “Improving the Administrative Process”. The recommendations of that 2016 report remain of interest, and the report remains available online, here, as well as at 69 Administrative Law Review 205-224 (Winter […]
This month several sources of useful information about regulation were published. For those interested, they are listed below: On May 18, 2016, the Administration published the Spring 2016 “Current Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions”, available here. Susan Dudley and Melinda Warren this month published the latest annual volume of their guide to the […]
For those with an interest in the issue of budgets for the costs of regulation as a potential reform of the regulatory system, there have been some recent developments: In the budget resolution adopted by the House Budget Committee on March 16, 2016 (H.Con.Res. 125), section 605 is titled “Policy Statement On Federal Regulatory Budgeting […]
Regulatory reform legislation has been a lively topic, and is likely to remain so. Next Tuesday, a panel featuring four senior House and Senate professional staff members will address “Congressional Interest in Regulatory Reform” during the 12th Annual Administrative Law Institute in Washington, D.C. And next Wednesday, the Hoover Institute and the ABA Section of Administrative […]
This month the House of Representatives passed two resolutions under the Congressional Review Act (5 USC 801, et seq .) that disapproved of EPA’s recent rules for greenhouse gases from new and existing power plants. S.J. Resolutions 23 and 24. These two resolutions had already passed the Senate on November 17, 2015. The vote in […]
This week the Senate Budget Committee held another hearing titled “Moving to a Stronger Economy Through Regulatory Budgeting”. The hearing included three witnesses, including Dr. John Graham, former OIRA Administrator and present Dean of Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Dr. Jerry Ellig, Senior Research Fellow at George Mason University; and Prof. Robert […]