President Trump’s February 18th Executive Order entitled, “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” represents a sweeping effort to consolidate federal executive branch lawmaking power with the President. The Order’s...more
Regulations matter. Federal executive action is supposed to be rooted in statutes, established through regulatory processes generally tied to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and — at least conceptually — rooted in the...more
Various media outlets are reporting that President-elect Joe Biden already has plans to sign a series of executive orders shortly after being sworn into office in January. While some of these planned executive orders will...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) officially sent its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the Part 541 regulations to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of the...more
Interim Guidance issued by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) to implement President Trump’s executive order entitled “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs” confirms that the order does...more