Regulatory roadblocks of 2012 likely to remain in 2013
A government watchdog group says that anti-regulation lawmakers used procedural hurdles and attacks on science to block new federal laws standards in 2012 - and that they're likely to continue that strategy in the coming year. "Both efforts are likely to re-emerge next year,” predicts OMB Watch, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that monitors actions by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
OMB Watch points to the the "Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act," passed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives in July. The measure is nicknamed "the regnibus" because it comprises seven different pieces of anti-regulatory legislation. The most prominent of the bills was the so-called "Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act," which would prohibit any new rules until the unemployment rate falls and stays below six percent.