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"[P]eople acting in a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could even hope to bring about." - FDR

Regulatory Record: The First Term:  



Overwhelming majorities believe the government has an important role in protecting the public interest, but the Bush administration has been eliminating and weakening vital safeguards of the public health, safety, and environment. The administration's record from the last year is only the latest evidence of an overall pattern of failure. How far has the administration gone in placing special interests over the public interest? Find out in The Bush Regulatory Record: A Pattern of Failure. Read the report today!

A series of examinations of the Bush administration record on regulatory policy for the public interest, based on the semiannual Unified Agenda of several key public interest agencies.

Subtopics
Regulatory Record: A First Look


Looking at the Bush administration's regulatory record by focusing on the regulatory agendas of selected agencies, from the beginning of the first term through March 2002.


Regulatory Record: Mid-term Update

Continuing the examination of the Bush regulatory record through May 2003.


Analysis
Regulatory Record: A Pattern of Failure

Read The Bush Regulatory Record: A Pattern of Failure, a report building on prior analyses of key agency agendas with an in-depth look at the fall 2003 and spring 2004 agendas.

Agencies Continue to Abandon Protective Plans
Key agencies charged with protecting public health, safety and the environment continued to abandon work on long-identified priorities for new or improved regulatory safeguards, according to the fall 2004 Unified Agenda released last December. Read More