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Description:: Last week marked the 20th anniversary of Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review, which was signed by President Clinton on September 30, 1993 and published in the Federal Register on October 4, 1993. EO 12866 built on previous regulatory oversight executive orders in establishing...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has used advanced imaging technology (AIT) to screen airline passengers for weapons since 2007. While the traveling public and defenders of civil liberties have been vocally critical of the practice, those objections have largely fallen on deaf...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: On January 18, 2011, President Obama signed Executive Order 13563, Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review, instructing agencies to retrospectively review their rules to identify outmoded, ineffective, and excessively burdensome requirements. In light of a recent news article detailing some...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: Last month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report finding that federal agencies published about 35 percent of the major rules issued between 2003 and 2010 without seeking public comment through a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). As Susan Dudley explained in a policy...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: Recognizing that unjustified regulatory burdens can be particularly challenging in a weak economy, President Obama issued Executive Order 13563 instructing each regulatory agency to “periodically review its existing significant regulations to determine whether any such regulations should be...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: Prepared Statement of Sofie E. Miller & Jacob Yarborough, The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center, Hearing on Safety Standard Addressing Blade-Contact Injuries on Table Saws Before the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission on August 9, 2017.
Author:: Yarborough, Jacob and Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Testimonies, Public policy, and Testimony
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Other

Description:: Executive Order 12866 outlines some fundamental tenets of U.S. regulatory policy, instructing regulatory agencies to identify the problems that they are attempting to solve through new rules and to promulgate rules that are cost-effective. These instructions are intended to make sure that rules...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: In January, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a proposed rule, Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption, establishing minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of produce. Our examination of the...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E. and West, Cassidy B.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: The benefits and costs of regulations, individually and in the aggregate, are notoriously hard to measure. In an attempt to measure the size and scope of regulation, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) each year submits to Congress an accounting statement and associated report providing...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E. and Dudley, Susan E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

Description:: Last week, President Obama nominated Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chief Economist Howard Shelanski to be the next Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). If confirmed by the Senate, Shelanski would fill the...
Author:: Miller, Sofie E.
Keyword:: Regulation, Regulatory studies, Regulatory policy, Federal government, Public policy, and Commentaries
GW Unit:: Regulatory Studies Center
Resource Type:: Commentary

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