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It’s Time To Restore Rules For America
Wonk Room — ... . New “major” regulations published in tomorrow’s Federal Register will go into effect before President-election Barack Obama takes office. They have until Dec. 20 to announce any “minor” regulations — and knowing Bush, they’ll probably call some major regulatory rewrites “minor.” Yesterday’s Federal Register had “ ...

From Campaigning to Governance, Part 2: transparency
techPresident — ... By the end of today, the Bush administration will have published a flood of new regulations, pushing them into the 60-day pipeline that gets them enacted just before Obama administration takes office. The blowback on these “midnight regulations” centers on the minimal opportunity for the public to review and provide input into the process. The speed with which these rules have been shoved through mocks public participation: the Interior Department ...