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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

Amendments to E.O. 12866:  

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July 20 – Agency Regulatory Policy Officers

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Apr. 27 – House Oversight on Regulatory Process Changes

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Apr. 25 – House to Examine Regulatory Policy Officers

Apr. 17 – Recess Appointment Makes Dudley Head of White House Regulatory Policy Office

Mar. 15 – OMB Watch Releases Report on Bush Changes to Regulatory Process

Mar. 9 – High-profile Opposition to Bush Regulatory Changes

Feb. 28 – Bush Executive Order Will Make It Harder to Protect the Public

Feb. 27 – Keeping President Bush's Anti-Regulation Campaign in the Spotlight

Feb. 21 – Congress Holds Hearings on Bush's Changes to Regulatory Process

Feb. 16 – New CRS Report on Increased White House Control of the Regulatory Process

Feb. 14 – Two House Committees Examine Bush Regulatory Amendments

Feb. 13 – The Executive Order's Effect on Regulation: Science & Technology Hearing

Feb. 2 – Tony Snow Addresses Amendments to Regulatory Process ... Sort of

Jan. 30 – NY Times and Washington Post Cover Bush Regulatory Amendments









On Jan. 18, President Bush amended Executive Order 12866 — Regulatory Planning and Review. In addition to their individual effects on agencies, the amendments collectively serve to delay regulation, centralize authority in the White House, and challenge the powers of Congress.

From OMB Watch: E.O. 13422: Unanswered and Unaccountable

From OMB Watch: A Failure to Govern: Bush's Attack on the Regulatory Process

From CRS: Changes to the OMB Regulatory Review Process

On Capitol Hill

House Science and Technology Committee hearing — Amending Executive Order 12866: Good Governance or Regulatory Usurpation? Part II

Testimony of Gary Bass, OMB Watch Executive Director — April 26, 2007

House Science and Technology Committee hearing — Amending Executive Order 12866: Good Governance or Regulatory Usurpation?

Testimony of Rick Melberth, OMB Watch Director of Regulatory Policy — February 13, 2007

House Judiciary Committee hearing — Amending Executive Order 12866: Good Governance or Regulatory Usurpation?



Resources

About E.O. 12866

E.O. 12866 as amended

The Bush amendments

The Good Guidance Bulletin

OMB Watch preliminary analysis

About the regulatory process

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In the News

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Executive Order 13422
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Rolling Back the Regs
In These Times

Subjecting Science To Politics
Hartford Courant

A Specific Governing Failure
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American zampoliti
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Executive Order Expands Presidential Control Over Agencies
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Dems look to stop Bush regulatory directive
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