{"id":1767,"date":"2008-11-12T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2008-11-12T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:40:35","slug":"regulatory-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/12\/regulatory-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory D&#8217;Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1108\/15530.html\">this holds up<\/a>, a lot of the work that&#8217;s been going on in DC in the past couple of months will be for naught:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last May, White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten instructed federal agency heads to make sure any new regulations were finalized by Nov. 1. The memo didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spell it out, but the thinking behind the directive was obvious. As Myron Ebell of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute put it: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not going to make the same mistakes the Clinton administration did.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>President Bill Clinton finalized regulations within 60 days of the 2001 inauguration, meaning Bush could come in and easily reverse them.<\/p>\n<p>It could take Obama years to undo climate rules finalized more than 60 days before he takes office \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the advantage the White House sought by getting them done by Nov. 1. But that strategy doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t account for the Congressional Review Act of 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The law contains a clause determining that any regulation finalized within 60 days of congressional adjournment \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Oct. 3, in this case \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is considered to have been legally finalized on Jan. 15, 2009. The new Congress then has 60 days to review it and reverse it with a joint resolution that can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be filibustered in the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.\u00c2\u00a0 Bonus point?\u00c2\u00a0 The CRA was a product of the Contract With America.<\/p>\n<p>(For those of you interested in the mechanics, <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/11\/the-cra----the.html\">this appears to be a good summary<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this holds up, a lot of the work that&#8217;s been going on in DC in the past couple of months will be for naught: Last May, White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten instructed federal agency heads to make sure any new regulations were finalized by Nov. 1. The memo didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spell it out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}