Bush’s Midnight Rules and Regulations

November 22nd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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Not by accident, there is a 60 day waiting period for any law put into place.  So, yesterday, November 21th, 60 days before President-elect Obama is to be inaugurated, George W. Bush worked to cement his legacy in place.

Let’s take a look at some of his last minute rules.  Many target hot button issues -

From Bloomberg.com:

“Most of them relax existing requirements. They make it easier for industries to pollute or deny a worker medical leaves.” says Matt Madia, regulatory policy analyst at OMB Watch, a nonprofit group critical of many regulatory policies under President George W. Bush.

“These regulations are not easy to ferret out,” says ProPublica, a watch dog paper aimed at exposing ill truths.  They’ve put together a list of potential rules and regulations which came about from Bush’s 11th hour proposals.

http://www.propublica.org/special/midnight-regulations/

Congressional Democrats are already introducing bills designed to out manuveur Bush’s regulations.

Will the new Obama administration be able to overturn this last minute flurry of conservative policy?

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  1. Comment by bartolomo on 22 November 2008:

    Lets just hope those 60 days pass quickly.

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