By issuing all of these regulations in the spring of 2024, the Biden administration has ensured that the Congress that is seated in January 2025 will not be able to use the CRA to overturn them. Any attempts to overturn the regulations will likely require 60 votes in the Senate.
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Dean Shapiro: A hidden way politics shapes regulation
To address these questions, two forces should be brought to bear. The first is expertise, which is housed at the agencies of the executive branch. The second is political responsiveness, which comes from the president. The push and pull between expertise and responsiveness is hard to balance, but few would argue that neither should be present.
Dean Stuart Shapiro: For the Biden administration’s 2024 regulations, timing is crucial
The American economy added over 330,000 jobs in September, but the role of government regulation in the economic equation is conspicuously absent from discussions. This article examines the impact of regulations on the macroeconomy and why they may be less significant than previously claimed, shedding light on a complex economic reality.
Dean Stuart Shapiro: Federal regulations don’t really affect economic growth
The American economy added over 330,000 jobs in September, but the role of government regulation in the economic equation is conspicuously absent from discussions. This article examines the impact of regulations on the macroeconomy and why they may be less significant than previously claimed, shedding light on a complex economic reality.
How the East Palestine derailment and Silicon Valley Bank failure are connected
Two of the biggest U.S. news stories from the past month are connected in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. Both involve the types of regulatory decisions made in the executive branch all the time, and both demonstrate the need for clearer thinking about how those...
No Way To Run a $6 Billion Enterprise
Rich Keevey makes a case for eliminating the debt ceiling and budgeting properly in this latest opinion piece in PA Times. "There have been 47 [Continuing Resolutions] CRs between 2010 and 2022, ranging in duration from 1 to 176 days. On three occasions no CR was...
Social media needs rules
Social media platforms have imploded with misinformation and hate. Linda Stamato, co-founder of the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Policy Fellow at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, makes a case for some sort of regulation and a...
Interim Dean Stuart Shapiro discusses West Virginia v. EPA on FedScoop podcast
Professor and Interim Dean Stuart Shapiro was a guest expert on the latest FedScoop podcast from Gov Actually (Episode 57) titled “The Supreme Court’s Impact on Federal Regulations,” on July 21, 2022.
Democrats’ use of Congressional Review Act puts filibuster debate in new light
Last week, the window closed on the ability of the Democrats in the Senate to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal regulations issued late in the Trump administration. The Democrats in the Senate passed three CRA resolutions in the past four months. One...
National political and policy check in: The first two months of the Biden Administration
A discussion about where we stand two months into the Biden Administration plus the vaccine rollout, the American Rescue Plan, the HR1 Voting Rights Act, the infrastructure investment bill and regulation.
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