GOP Push For Rule Review Panel Could Overcome Hurdle Of Veto Threats

摘要

Senate Republicans' bid to create a new bicameral select committee on regulatory reform could give EPA's critics a platform to launch increased oversight of the agency's rules, helping to inform an "omnibus" rule review bill that could have enough support to overcome existing White House veto threats on narrower reform legislation. "I've seen nothing to indicate that any of these bills have much of a chance as stand-alone legislation," says one EPA supporter of the already introduced measures that target various rules or agency programs. But "the idea of an 'omnibus' regulatory bill" that the suggested panel could inform "is certainly worth monitoring," the source says.