Rectifying Regulations: What Can Be Done? [Repeal And Do Not Replace.]

Center for Fiscal Accountability ^ | 2011-03-21 | [Staff]

[92nina]

...In particular, the President's health care law will require over forty different rulemakings to clarify and adjudicate, a process that could and will have significant economic impact. As Ellig points out, these kind of real-world effects are often ignored by the thousands of bureaucrats employed to administer the regulatory regime. In fact, the growth in executive rulemaking has been aided by the lax process; the analyses required to be undertaken and used by regulators are often signficantly deficient in detail and scope, and are largely ignored by administrators tasked with taking their findings into account. Ellig, a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, proposed commonsense solutions to dial back the growth in the unaccountable regulatory machine:

"First, sound regulatory analysis needs to be required by legislation, not just by executive order. Regulatory agencies usually do better analysis when legislation tells them they must consider specific factors like costs, benefits, and efficiency.

A legislative requirement for regulatory analysis would also ensure that "independent" agencies like the Federal Communications Commission and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must do economic analysis before they issue regulations that affect our economy. Currently, the president can only ask such agencies to conduct economic analysis of their regulations, and they rarely comply..."

[92nina]

The president is not helping matters.

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