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Oversight of Executive Branch Rulemaking in the 21st Century


Oversight of Executive Branch Rulemaking in the 21st Century

This article will discuss the failure of past judicial and congressional doctrines and devices to provide oversight of the executive's rulemaking.

Options for Enhancing Congressional Oversight of Rulemaking and ...

GAO identified numerous options for how Congress could enhance oversight of the executive branch rulemaking process. GAO groups the options ...

Rulemaking Then and Now: From Management to Lawmaking

Rulemaking occupies a central place in modern administrative law. It is the focus of innumerable fights—over policy, the scope of constitutionally and ...

Reining in the Administrative State | Cato Institute

Agencies regulate through a combination of the legislative, executive, and judicial functions by issuing rules with the force of law, policing those rules, and ...

Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century

The President issues an. Executive Order directing. OMB to propose a comprehensive plan to reform and reorganize. Executive Branch departments and agencies.

Lessons in Regulatory Oversight - National Affairs

This reality has led policy wonks and lawmakers alike to call for mechanisms by which Congress can review and potentially vote on the regulations and rules ...

Congressional Oversight Manual

212 This restriction has led to some conflict with the executive branch, which has asserted. 207 See H.Res. 8 §3(b) 117th Cong. (2021) ...

Overview of Congress's Investigation and Oversight Powers

... oversight conflict between Congress and the Executive Branch.Footnote Prior ... By the mid-twentieth century, judicial recognition of the ...

Legislative Oversight of Legal Mandates: Strategies for ... - Peer

... oversee their executive branch rulemaking authority; and,. • obtained ... of administrative rules under subdivision (a) (1) of this section.

Federal Rulemaking | U.S. GAO

Congressional oversight. Oversight of the executive branch is one of Congress's main responsibilities. In recent years, Congress has explored ways to modernize ...

21st Century Regulation: Discovering Better Solutions to Enduring ...

In this publication, you will find five papers by leading scholars in the Mercatus Center's academic network. These papers examine various reforms and new ...

Milestones in the Evolution of the Administrative State

These milestones reflect bipartisan consensus on appropriate constraints on executive rulemaking, but they have not succeeded in stemming the debate over the ...

Regulation Reform | The White House

In January 2011, President Obama outlined his plan to create a 21st-century regulatory system – one that protects public health and welfare while promoting ...

Toward a Congressional Resurgence | Cato Institute

As a result, lawmakers are reliant on the executive branch for information about the costs, benefits, and other societal effects of administrative policymaking.

The Role of Congress in Monitoring Administrative Rulemaking

Under current law, Congress can only disapprove regulations. Under our bill, Congress must specifically approve every regulation. Under our bill, if a ...

Federal Agencies are Publishing Fewer but Larger Regulations

This commentary uses almost three decades of data on proposed and final rules to better understand how the pace of regulatory activity has changed. The rate of ...

The Role of the President and OMB in Informal Rulemaking

"within" the executive branch.,4 This position derives considerable support ... Oversight of agency rulemaking by the executive branch, includ- ing the ...

Congressional Oversight of the White House - Department of Justice

Although the Executive Branch should seek to accommodate legitimate requests for information concerning the depart- ments and agencies, this ...

The Impossibility of Legislative Regulatory Reform and the Futility of ...

Unlike in Congress, regulatory reform is a constant theme of executive branch ...

Congressional Oversight

Underlying the legislature's ability to oversee the executive branch are democratic principles as ... vested by this Constitution in the Government of the ...