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Managing The Regulatory State: The Experience Of The Bush Administration, John D. Graham, Paul R. Noe, Elizabeth L. Branch

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article traces the history of Presidential management of the regulatory state up to the administration of President George W. Bush. It focuses on the latter's implementation of "smarter regulation," an approach to regulation based on unfunded mandates on the private sector implemented through the Office of Management and Budget, an organization within the Executive Office of the President. It finds cost-benefit analysis an essential, yet often neglected, tool for implementing efficient and effective regulations. It concludes the policies promoted under President Bush's OMB have effectively cut costs by streamlining the rule-making process and discouraging adopting new federal rules, but …