Weakening Public Protections

Weakening Public Protections: News Analysis Correspondence

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White House Report Spins Bush Reg Failures 12/13/2005
In a debate with high stakes for a public that is largely unaware of it, the White House released a report on Dec. 7 spinning its anti-regulatory record as a success. Read More

Administration Withholds Rationales Behind Anti-Regulatory Hit List 07/25/2005
The Bush administration is refusing to inform the public about the justifications for deciding which regulatory protections were added to its hit list of safeguards to be weakened or eliminated. Read More

Hearing on Hit List Addresses Larger Regulatory Policy Issues 07/11/2005
A House subcommittee hearing on the White House's anti-regulatory hit list became a venue for stakeholders to voice their positions on the broader ongoing debate over public protections and political interference in regulatory policy, pitting corporate-conservative talking points against evidence of the need for stringent safeguards. Read More

Anti-Regulatory Hit List Debated in House Hearing 05/02/2005
The Bush administration again defended its anti-regulatory hit list to Congress, this time presenting the initiative as a boon to small manufacturers in a hearing before the House Small Business Committee that also featured renewed calls for regulatory sunsets. Read More

Corporate-Conservative Alliance Plots Attack on Safeguards 04/19/2005
From many small and supposedly disconnected proposals, a larger pattern is emerging: corporate special interests and conservative lawmakers are conspiring to mount a comprehensive assault on regulatory protections, on a scale equivalent to the broad-based attacks of the Contract With America. Read More

White House Adds Rule to Hit List After Calling it 'Accomplishment' 04/04/2005
Just three months after touting an interim rule controlling Listeria in ready-to-eat meats as a "regulatory reform accomplishment," the White House added that same rule to a list of regulations to be weakened or eliminated. Read More

White House Endorses Parts of Anti-Regulatory Hit List 03/21/2005
The White House released the final version of its 2004-05 anti-regulatory hit list, with a report detailing 76 out of 189 items from the industry-nominated list that received the endorsement of the White House and agencies. Read More

White House Advances Anti-Regulatory Hit List 01/10/2005
The White House waited until eight days before Christmas to reveal its new regulatory �reform� plan instructing agencies to review and complete action plans on a regulatory hit list of over 200 suggestions for reversing protections of the public interest, mostly proposed by industry lobbyists. Read More

White House Meets with Industry to Plan Deregulatory Strategy 01/10/2005
Over the past several months, the White House has met with industry representatives to develop a sweeping deregulatory strategy. Read More

Graham Defiant in Hearing, Dems Probe Mercury Rule 11/30/2004
The last regulatory policy hearing of a House Government Reform subcommittee was split into two disconnected halves, as committee Republicans considered the White House's policy of inviting industry to suggest rollbacks of regulatory protections while Democrats assailed the Environmental Protection Agency's pending rulemaking for mercury pollution. Read More

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