New Congressional Staff Report Shows Job Creators Still Buried by Regulatory Red Tape…

July 20th, 2012 | Posted by Larry Spiwak in "Cost Per Regulator" | Congressional Oversight | Federal Budget | Jobs | Law and Economics | Legislative Branch | Regulation | Regulatory Reform - (Comments Off)

This week, the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform released a new Staff Report entitled Continuing Oversight of Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation:  Job Creators Still Buried by Red Tape. Among other significant data, the Staff Report found that: From 2010 to 2011, the number of final rules issued by federal agencies rose from 3,573 to 3,807—a 6.5 percent increase.  During that same time frame, the number of proposed rules increased 18.8 percent; The published regulatory burden for 2012 could exceed $105 billion, according to the American Action Forum, headed by a former director of the Congressional Budget Office; Analysis from the Heritage Foundation …
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Does Political “Kabuki Theater” Help or Hurt the Regulatory Review Process?

May 8th, 2012 | Posted by Larry Spiwak in Congressional Oversight | Federal Communications Commission | Law and Economics | Legislative Branch | Merger Review | Mobile Broadband | Regulation | Spectrum | Spectrum Caps | Spectrum Exhaust | Wireless - (Comments Off)

Recently, The Hill reported that Representatives Henry Waxman and Anna Eshoo—the ranking members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, respectively—wrote a letter to Committee Chairman Fred Upton calling for a hearing to examine the proposed sale of wireless spectrum to Verizon by a consortium of cable companies.  Without question, Congress has the authority to hold a hearing on anything they deem relevant at any time they want.  That said, and with all due respect to the powers of the legislative branch, it is unclear what a politically-charged hearing would contribute at this late stage of the review …
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