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I used to work at OIRA, the division of the Office of Management and Budget that oversees all domestic regulations. Now they are asking for comments on a new set of standards for the way their review the regulations from administrative agencies like the Cabinet departments and EPA, and from…

The uncivil nominee to head OMB’s nomination should be withdrawn or defeated — With the decision of Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) to oppose President Biden’s nomination of Neera Tanden to head OMB, approval by the full Senate is increasingly unlikely. The Biden administration, still claiming to support her, is believed to be working on a replacement nominee. Among the names circulating are former…

Believe it or not, the two parties in Congress and the President have agreed on something both significant and substantive since Election Day: Not just that the Internet of Things (IoT) needs better security, but on how to do it — or at least try. Both houses of Congress passed…

When President-elect Joe Biden announced his choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) last Monday, many pundits claimed that Republican senators would sink Neera Tanden’s confirmation. Hers would be the sacrificial nomination that Republicans could comfortably thwart. She’s “unfit to be confirmed by the U.S. …

Today, we’re releasing a new report by @rdnayak and yours truly that looks at a little known executive branch agency called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. What’s this all about? Thread👇 Roosevelt Institute✔@rooseveltinst Today, OIRA can be bogged down and often favors “deregulatory” actions and the interests of…

This is an OMB appeal by a Residents’ Association against the approval of a minor variance application to permit a below-grade integral garage in a new house. CanLII - 2018 CanLII 1874 (ON OMB) Leaside Property Owners' Association v Toronto (City), 2018 CanLII 1874 (ON OMB), , retrieved on 2018-04-24www.canlii.org As a quick refresher, there are four tests that must be met for a Minor Variance to be approved:

The work is done, but it might mean smaller budgets in the future — by MANDY SMITHBERGER The U.S. government created its special war spending budget to fund unexpected costs of fighting overseas. As such, the Overseas Contingency Operations account, or OCO, is not part of the Pentagon’s base budget and isn’t subject to the spending caps in the Budget Control Act of 2011. …

The white house has pulled its archive of Regulatory Actions that follows in the steps of pulling down Climate Change, Human and LBGTQ rights pages! As of yet the media has failed to publish details of Trump’s first Executive Order (EO) that including reinstating President Bush’s EO 13422. The alternative…

Over the weekend a draft of Senator Kennedy’s (D-MA) health care bill leaked. After playing with Adobe Acrobat, here is the text of the draft Kennedy bill as a text file (173 K), and as a single Acrobat file (3.4 MB). Update: I fixed the broken link to the PDF…