CRA Filing Errors Give Trump Way To Ax Rules Dating Back To 1996

By Beth Wang / February 23, 2017 at 8:25 PM
A panel of regulatory policy experts, including the original writers of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), say both the Trump administration and Congress could scrap federal rules and guidance documents dating as far back as 1996 when the law was first enacted because agencies haven't always met a little-known filing requirement. The experts say the glitch gives the Trump administration an easy tool to permanently roll back regulations without resorting to the lengthy Administrative Procedure Act process: An agency could...

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