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Highlights from January-March 2025 from the Regulatory Studies Center include: Susan Dudley's commentary on how Trump's Executive Orders are pushing the regulatory envelope, staff updates, new data added to the Congressional Review Act dashboard, reviewing the Biden Administration's last year with RegStats, plus our latest publications and media engagement.
Previous Editions of the Regulatory Studies Center Update
- December 2024
Updates from the Regulatory Studies center from December 2024 include: Professor Dudley's WSJ op-ed on DOGE, RSC experts in high demand as the Congressional Review Act and the Trump transition drive media coverage. What to expect on the regulatory front in 2025, and more
- September 2024
Updates from the Regulatory Studies Center for September 2024 include: Introducing the CRA Window Exploratory Dashboard. Advancing your professional development with Trachtenberg's Graduate Certificate in Regulatory Policy & Practice. RSC charts and data cited in Justice Neil Gorsuch's book, 'Over Ruled'. Plus the latest publications, media, external engagements, and more.
- July 2024
Updates from the Regulatory Studies Center for July 2024 include: Roger Nober's testimony on CARB Locomotive Regulation at the July 9 hearing of U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials; Commentary by Zhoudan (Zoey) Xie on Biden's Spring 2024 Unified Agenda; Susan Dudley's commentary for Forbes on Supreme Court overruling the Chevron Deference Doctrine; Steven Balla appears on the Double Take podcast to discuss the role of the Congressional Review Act in reversing regulatory actions of the executive branch.
- May 2024
Updates from the Regulatory Studies Center for May 2024 include: Graduate Certificate in Regulatory Policy and Practice to Launch Fall 2024. Gift establishes the Beales Regulatory Studies Center Research Fund, supporting applied research on regulation impacts. April was the busiest month on record for big ticket rules.
- March 2024
Regulatory Studies Center to host June 5 forum, Regulation by Enforcement: Blockchain and Crypto. Congress takes action on technology and public commenting. A look-back at the law: How Congress uses the Congressional Review Act. Breakout discussion summaries now available online from "Building on Regulatory Foundations" event.
- January 2024
This update features the announcement of Roger Nober as the Center's new director; a look back at major trends from our 2023 Regulatory Year in Review; Mary Sullivan's public interest comment on the FTC's Proposed Junk Fees Rule; an overview of the Biden Administration's Fall 2023 Unified Agenda; and highlights and photos from our November event exploring emerging challenges and technology in regulatory practice: Building On Regulatory Foundations.
- October 2023
This update includes a joint essay for The Regulatory Review authored by former presidents of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) including RSC's Joseph Cordes and Susan Dudley: Promoting Best Practices for US Regulatory Analysis.
Featured publications include commentary by Sarah Hay on the Congressional Review Act, a public interest comment by Mary Sullivan on Draft FTC-DOJ Merger Guidelines, papers by peer reviewers including Joseph Cordes on the OMB Draft Circular A-4, a working paper by Robert W. Crandall on vertical integration in the communications industry and net neutrality, and a WSJ op-ed by Susan Dudley and W. Kip Viscusi: Biden’s OMB Politicizes Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Recent podcasts highlight topics including the Call for an AM Radio Mandate, Mary Sullivan and Joe Cordes on the Draft FTC-DOJ Merger Guidelines, and Reeve Bull on Building an Evidence-Based System of Regulatory Analysis from the Bottom Up.
- August 2023
The Regulatory Studies Center prepares for a new era as we seek our next Center Director and Research Professor. Founder and director Susan Dudley will continue to be an affiliated scholar and professor in the Trachtenberg School for Public Policy and Public Administration.
In an interview with an MPP alumna, we catch up with Claire Garvin to learn more about her exciting career path in regulatory policy.
A bevy of public interest comments provided input on the OMB Draft Circular A-4 including:
- The Discounting Dilemma and Using Distributional Weights in Circular A-4 Would Encourage Wasteful Rent-Seeking by Brian Mannix
- Simpler, More Transparent Analysis Will Make Circular A-4 More Valuable to the Regulatory Process by Christopher Carrigan & Stuart Shapiro
- OMB Draft Circular A4: Safeguarding Objective and Evidence-Based Principles for Regulatory Impact Analysis by Susan Dudley
- On Draft Circular A4, Behavioral Biases, and Discount Rates by Howard Beales III
- Distributional Weights Should Be Dropped from the Draft Circular A-4 by Mary Sullivan