Extend White House regulatory review to independent agencies
What the document says“Regulatory analysis and OIRA review should also be required of the historically “independent” agencies as the Office of Legal Counsel has found is legally permissible.”
Independent agencies, such as the financial and communications regulators, have not generally submitted their rules to White House review. The chapter says regulatory analysis and OIRA review should be required of them too, citing an Office of Legal Counsel finding that this is legally permissible. It puts the word independent in quotation marks.
What the document actually says“Regulatory analysis and OIRA review should also be required of the historically “independent” agencies as the Office of Legal Counsel has found is legally permissible.”
These agencies should have to send their rules to the White House for review too.
Some agencies have long been kept apart from the White House. They write rules without sending them over first. The book says they should have to send them. It says a legal office has said this is allowed.
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