The White House announced that the FY 2006 budget will include two proposals for dramatic overhauls of government oversight that would become the Gatling gun for destroying federal programs that protect the public health, safety, civil rights, and environment.
One proposal would create a Sunset Commission to review program performance. As a Congress Daily AM article elaborates, the proposal would also force all government programs to cease serving the public after ten years, unless Congress affirmatively votes to keep the program alive.
What's cooking on the anti-regulatory front? Follow your nose... to the OIRA log of meetings with industry. These meetings have already begun in 2005:
Meeting with the International Dairy Foods Association about FDA rules on "Food Standards: General Principles and Food Standards Modernization"
About this pending rulemaking (RIN 0910-AC54):
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