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Showing posts with label rulemaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rulemaking. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

More on the Congressional Review Act ....

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... which I really know little about. It looks to be an instrument to reign in the bureaucracy that has been more or less dormant for twenty...

From Washington Post: Trump may unwittingly agree to tie his hands, limit executive power

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Here's commentary on efforts Congress seems to ne making in order to reign in the executive branch. In 2305 we will discuss the expansio...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

From the Atlantic: Medical Marijuana Won’t Become Legal Anytime Soon - A recent notice from the Drug Enforcement Administration denies a petition to have the drug accepted for medical use at the federal level.

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From our discussion in class this evening. - Click here for the article . The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday that it ...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

From the UK Indepedent: Texas governor Greg Abbott ‘secretly’ proposes rule requiring burial and cremation of aborted fetuses - The governor will bypass state legislation to implement the rule

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A twist on the rule making process. - Click here for the article . Only days after reproductive rights advocates celebrated the Supreme C...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

From Elizabeth Warren: Corporate Capture of the Rulemaking Process

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The possible VP candidate comments on the current state of regulatory capture in the rulemaking process. The process is biased towards corp...
Monday, June 27, 2016

From Scotublog: United States v. Texas

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The court upheld a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas temporarily halting the president's Deferred Action for Par...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Rules in the News

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Bloomberg: More Drones for Hire Coming to U.S. Skies in Landmark Rules . The Obama administration is opening U.S. skies to more commercial ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Take Care Clause of the Constitution and the Administrative Procurement Act.

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Apart from politics - these lie at heart of the dispute in the immigration case discussed in the previous post. What are they? - Adminis...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

From Bloomberg: Obama's Gun Control Initiative Challenged in Federal Lawsuit

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We discussed in class whether the expansion of background checks for gun buyers - and more specifically the requirement that gun sellers pe...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

What is the Congressional Review Act?

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It was referred to in the previous post, It's what limits the ability of President Obama to implement his agenda through bureaucratic pr...

From Politico: Obama pushing thousands of new regulations in Year 8 The calendar says there are 13 months left to Barack Obama's presidency. But when it comes to exercising executive power, it's more like five.

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A look at how a president can exercise political power when Congress is held by the opposition party and the nation is distracted by a camp...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

From the White House: FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities Safer

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I've yet to find confirmation, but what the president announced yesterday were executive actions that will form the basis of a series of...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Two campuses rule on campus carry

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- Texas State Issues Recommended Campus Carry Rules . In recommending how Texas State University should comply with a new state campus carr...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The next round in the battle between Texas and the EPA

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The Texas Tribune reports on the latest chapter of the never ending conflict between the government of Texas and the United States Environm...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

"Texas has sued the EPA 21 times since President Obama took office in 2009"

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That's a quote pulled from the following story in the Texas Tribune on a recent decision concerning the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollut...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Do you want to comment on the proposed changes to overtime rules?

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You can. All rules changes go through a period of public comment, including this one. - Click here to see how you can add you two cents .
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

What is the "Mercury and Air Toxics Standard?"

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This was the rule in question in Michigan v EPA. It was passed in 2012 - here's a description of it: The 2012 mercury and air toxics s...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

From the Washington Post: The FCC approves strong net neutrality rules

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- Click here for the article . The Federal Communications Commission approved strict new rules for Internet providers Thursday in a histor...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

From the NYT: F.A.A. Rules Would Limit Commercial Drone Use

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This gives us an early look at the rule-making process. Both 2305 and 2306 will look at this process further when we get to the executive br...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

From the Texas Tribune: Perry: Anti-Prison Rape Standards "Impossible"

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More conflict between the US and Texas governments. - Click here for the article . More than a decade after the Prison Rape Elimination Ac...