{"id":11600,"date":"2011-10-10T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T21:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11600"},"modified":"2011-10-10T17:45:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T21:45:19","slug":"the-%e2%80%9cupstream%e2%80%9d-approach-to-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11600\/the-%e2%80%9cupstream%e2%80%9d-approach-to-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cUpstream\u201d Approach to Regulatory Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the <em>journal<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pubs\/regulation\/regv34n3\/regv34n3-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Regulation<\/em><\/a>, there are two ways to regulate the flow of administrative agency rules.\u00a0 The \u201cdownstream\u201d approach tries to \u201crein in onerous regulations after they have been promulgated.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201cupstream\u201d method allows Congress \u201cto restrict administrative agencies before giving them rulemaking authority during the legislative process.\u201d\u00a0 The idea is to get fewer and less costly regulations with five key reforms:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Require agencies to review existing regulations for inefficiency at a set time after implementation (which sounds like something similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunset.state.tx.us\/faq.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Texas\u2019 Sunset process<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Require agencies to eliminate duplicative rules if a new regulation would supersede an older one<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Limit the total number of regulations during implementation of any new law (an attempt to make rule writers more cautious when spending their regulatory chips)<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Establish a regulatory \u201cpay-as-you-go\u201d that rescinds one old rule for every new rule implemented (the authors also argue for a proportionality requirement that ensures against an economy-killing rule replacing a forgotten restriction no longer necessary)<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prohibit new regulations where costs exceed benefits<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The key perk of the last proposal is requiring agencies to engage in a formal cost-benefit analysis during the implementation phase.\u00a0 That helps put the agency on record \u2013 and the voting public on notice \u2013 of the true impact about to hit before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the short (4 page), tightly-argued article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pubs\/regulation\/regv34n3\/regv34n3-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Cato Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the journal Regulation, there are two ways to regulate the flow of administrative agency rules.\u00a0 The \u201cdownstream\u201d approach tries to \u201crein in onerous regulations after they have been promulgated.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201cupstream\u201d method allows Congress \u201cto restrict administrative agencies before giving them rulemaking authority during the legislative process.\u201d\u00a0 The idea is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3114,2726,84,102,56,300,3115],"class_list":["post-11600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-administrative-agency","tag-administrative-state","tag-congress","tag-free-market","tag-government","tag-regulation","tag-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11600"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11605,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions\/11605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}