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...
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regulation
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.
Trump’s regulatory rollbacks, from net neutrality to campus sex assault
That said, Trump has made progress in halting or slowing some major Obama-era initiatives. And some regulatory experts believe that the message the president is sending on deregulation is just as important as any specific policy changes he is enacting. "This is the...
Reforms in Electricity Markets – What Next?
by Rasika Athawale, Frank Felder and Gayatri Gadag The electricity industry is undergoing rapid changes in response to policy push as an outcome from climate change concerns and disruption pull from products and solutions such as distributed energy resources and...
EPA mercury regs head to high court
Detractors of the rule say a Supreme Court ruling in favor of industry could also leave the Obama administration in a sort of tail-spin, in the position of having to re-issue a rule – a process that could take significant amounts of time. But other legal minds say...
Analyzing Regulation’s Impact On Jobs
The question of whether regulations to protect public health have hurt employment has been very prominent over the past few years. One study found that the use of the phrase “job-killing regulations” increased in the media by over 17,000 percent between 2007 and...
New Shapiro article in “Administration and Society”
Associate Professor Stuart Shapiro has a new article, “Does Haste Make Waste? How Long Does it Take to do a Good Regulatory Impact Analysis?” (subscription required) in the academic journal Administration and Society, written with John Morrall of George Mason...