The 2014 Election Will Have Big Effect On Regulation
My latest column from The Hill argues that if Republicans carry the Senate next week, President Obama will find it harder to issue regulations to protect the environment and public health.
Click here for reuse options!While we can expect that few pieces of legislation will make it through Congress and be signed by the president, one exception is the annual budget. There will be a lot of rhetoric, possibly another government shutdown, and much negotiation, but eventually the next Congress will pass two annual budgets. A Republican-controlled Congress is much more likely to attach riders, provisions that bar federal agencies from taking certain actions, to that budget. During the 1990s, when Republicans controlled Congress and Bill Clinton was president, this technique was used by the Republican Congress to thwart regulatory initiatives.
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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R.J. Carter October 29th, 2014 at 16:20
Guess he’ll just have to get a whole box of pens, and a larger plan for his phone.
R.J. Carter October 29th, 2014 at 16:20
Guess he’ll just have to get a whole box of pens, and a larger plan for his phone.
searambler October 29th, 2014 at 22:25
“There will be a lot of rhetoric, possibly another government shutdown, and much negotiation, but eventually the next Congress will pass two annual budgets.”
Obama could veto them, and the government could limp along on ‘continuing resolutions’ until 2017, when the Dems regain control of Congress. If only he had the balls…..
searambler October 29th, 2014 at 22:25
“There will be a lot of rhetoric, possibly another government shutdown, and much negotiation, but eventually the next Congress will pass two annual budgets.”
Obama could veto them, and the government could limp along on ‘continuing resolutions’ until 2017, when the Dems regain control of Congress. If only he had the balls…..
rg9rts October 30th, 2014 at 04:01
Now there is a real news flash! !! Fewer pieces of legislation will make it through congress…Only their pay raises and early breaks
rg9rts October 30th, 2014 at 04:01
Now there is a real news flash! !! Fewer pieces of legislation will make it through congress…Only their pay raises and early breaks