The CRE website contains thousands of pages of information dealing with centralized regulatory review, OIRA and the evolution of benefit-cost analysis as it is applied to federal rulemaking,
Deep in the website there is a list of nearly 500 handpicked journal articles by CRE related to the aforementioned subjects. When a search term is placed in the search engine it scans the journal articles as well as the thousands of pages of text created by CRE and its collaborators.
Editor’s Note: What a pleasant way to begin the New Year by not allowing the concepts of judicial review and benefit-cost analysis, however significant, to virtually overwhelm all discussions of OIRA.
OIRA is the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. At its founding some members of Congress would stomach the establishment of an office to oversee federal agency regulators which theretofore they believed to be solely under their jurisdiction only on the condition that the new office would address the broad issue of “information”. Please note “information” precedes “regulatory” in OIRA’s title.
Reprint from the Washington Post
The following post is written by Peter Strauss, the son of Peter Strauss, one of the outstanding managers of the administrative state.
Speed kills.
That’s why firing bullets from a gun is more dangerous than tossing them by hand. Why skydivers use parachutes. Why roads have speed limits. And why it’s critical to understand how quickly human activity will drive the climate to change, compared with past rates. Will we cause gradual shifts that civilization and life on Earth can adapt to — or are we igniting a wildfire that can’t be outrun?
It is refreshing to see an article dealing with either OIRA or administrative law that does not address judicial review or the methodologies of benefit-cost analysis, however significant. Attempts to have the political science profession make similar contributions to the management of OIRA have been singularly unsuccessful.