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“Federal agencies should post most guidance documents in one public online place, clearly mark guidance they have withdrawn, and treat guidance with major real-world effects more like a formal rule, while leaving out some internal, military, and foreign-affairs documents.”
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“Federal rules with at least $100 million in yearly economic effects or other major effects on prices, jobs, competition, investment, productivity, innovation, or U.S. business competitiveness should not take effect unless Congress passes an approval measure, with a limited 90-day emergency start and fast yes-or-no votes in Congress.”
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“Federal agencies should send existing major rules back to Congress in yearly batches covering at least 10 percent of them, Congress should be able to vote on rules separately or attach conditions, and any existing major rule that is not approved within 10 years should stop operating.”
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“Rule reports should go to the congressional committees that oversee the law involved, rules sent near the end of a session should get a fresh review window in the next session, and nonmajor rules should be able to take effect unless Congress uses a faster process to reject them.”
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“People affected by a federal rule should be able to sue if an agency skips required steps or wrongly says a rule is not major, people accused of breaking a rule should have a defense if the statute did not clearly warn that their conduct was illegal, and most other decisions in this review process would stay out of court.”
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“This review process should apply to federal agency rules that affect people or businesses outside the agency, not to internal agency management or purely procedural steps, and some hunting, fishing, camping, and good-cause nonmajor rules should be allowed to start on the agency's own schedule.”
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“Congress should be able to use one vote to cancel several agency rules that agencies sent to Congress during the final year of a President's term, instead of holding a separate vote on each rule.”
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“GAO should quickly tell Congress whether agencies followed the required steps for each major rule and whether the rule adds new private-sector mandates, and within one year GAO should also report how many federal rules are in effect and estimate their total economic cost.”
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“Courts should be able to decide whether an agency completed the required rule-review steps before a rule took effect, but not second-guess Congress's own actions in that process, and congressional approval should not give an agency extra legal power or block other legal challenges to the rule.”
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“When Congress passes one resolution canceling several agency rules at once, every rule named in that package should be canceled together and have no legal effect?”
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“The White House should set yearly caps on how much new federal rules can add in regulatory costs, and agencies should usually have to cut other regulatory costs or get written approval before issuing a significant new rule that adds costs.”
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“Before federal rules take effect, agencies should share the rule text, supporting data and studies, cost and job estimates, and planned start date; the White House budget office should publish upcoming rule and rollback plans and any written permission to go over regulatory cost limits; and GAO should count existing rules and estimate their total cost.”
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“Federal Reserve monetary policy should be left out of this system, rule rollbacks should skip the new approval votes, smaller rules should still be open to fast congressional cancellation, and some seasonal or urgent smaller rules should be allowed to start sooner.”
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“Most new major federal rules should end after 10 years unless Congress extends them, agencies should not be allowed to bring back nearly the same expired rule without new authority from Congress, and the President should have only a narrow 30-day delay for one expiring rule in urgent cases.”
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“Before Congress votes on one package canceling several agency rules, the resolution should name each rule, say which agency issued it, and briefly state what the rule is about.”
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