Background Information: Though independent regulatory agencies are not subject to the benefit-cost analysis requirements of Executive Orders 12866 and 13563, several such agencies...
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The Committee on Regulation studies procedures applicable to the control of private economic activity, including ways to reduce costs and increase effectiveness of agency programs.
Committee Contacts
Committee Meetings & Events
April 29, 2013 Committee Meeting(Committee on Regulation)
April 2, 2013 Committee Meeting(Committee on Regulation)
March 4, 2013 Committee Meeting(Committee on Regulation)
Committee Research Projects
The Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552b, generally requires multi-member federal agencies (e.g., FCC, SEC) to hold their meetings in public and to give advance public notice of their...
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Read more »In 1991, ACUS issued Recommendation 91-1, which provided guidance for all U.S. regulatory agencies on working with their international counterparts. In April 2011, ...
Read more »At its Plenary Session on December 9-10, 2010, the Administrative Conference of the United States adopted Recommendation 2010-1, regarding agency procedures for determining whether to preempt...
Read more »Background: Agencies wishing to promulgate regulations face an array of procedural requirements. In addition to the basic notice-and-comment requirements of the Administrative...
Read more »Committee Members
| Name | Role | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| H. Russell Frisby, Jr. | Committee Chair, Public Member | Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP |
| James Ming Chen | Public Member | Michigan State University |
| Sandy Comenetz | Government Member | Federal Housing Finance Agency |
| Susan E. Dudley | Public Member | Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University |
| E. Donald Elliott | Senior Fellow | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Michael Fitzpatrick | Public Member | General Electric, Government & Regulatory Affairs Office |
| Amy S. Friend | Government Member | Office of the Comptroller of the Currency |
| Meredith Fuchs | Government Member | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
| Philip Howard | Public Member | Covington and Burling LLP |
| Cameron F. Kerry | Government Member | Department of Commerce |
| Carl Malamud | Public Member | Public.Resource.org |
| David W. Ogden | Public Member | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr |
| Richard Osterman | Government Member | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| Richard L. Revesz | Public Member | New York University School of Law |
| Jonathan Rose | Senior Fellow | Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law |
| Peter L. Strauss | Senior Fellow | Columbia Law School |
| Larry D. Thompson | Public Member | PepsiCo, Inc |
| Elana J. Tyrangiel | Government Member | Department of Justice |
| David Vladeck | Senior Fellow | Georgetown University Law Center |
| Megan Wallace | Government Member | Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
| Christy Walsh | Government Member | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| Richard E. Wiley | Senior Fellow | Wiley Rein LLP |

