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Regulatory Reform: Progress And Unfinished Business, Murray L. Weidenbaum
Regulatory Reform: Progress And Unfinished Business, Murray L. Weidenbaum
Murray Weidenbaum Publications
From 1980 to 2000, attitudes toward government regulation have shifted significantly. Terms like "command and control" have been replaced by "the magic of the marketplace." Yet as this statement before the Joint Economic Committee in March 2000 demonstrates, as the regulatory reform movement slows, a new strategy, focusing on the shortcomings of the basic regulatory statutes, is needed. Congress should establish an independent Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis to credibly assess the costs and benefits of proposed Congressional regulation legislation.
The Public And The Congress Need To Know More About Government Regulation, Murray L. Weidenbaum
The Public And The Congress Need To Know More About Government Regulation, Murray L. Weidenbaum
Murray Weidenbaum Publications
The public and Congress both need to know more about the costs and benefits of government regulation. This testimony before the Senate Committee on Government affairs in April 1999 addresses the proposed S.59 bill, the Regulatory Right-to-Know Act of 1999, and the proposals for a Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis. S.59 accomplishes the desirable objective of raising the level of public regulatory understanding in a straightforward and nonpartisan manner: providing consistent regulatory data. Likewise, a new Office of Regulatory Analysis would give Congress an independent source of information - provided its charter were broad enough for the task.