Administration to call for veto of tighter regs reporting rules

While the House Rules Committee debated legislation Tuesday that will force federal agencies to notify and solicit feedback from businesses in drafting a rule, the administration issued a statement promising it would recommend a Presidential veto.

The House Rules Committee is expected to vote on H.R. 50 – The Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015 – following final votes later today.  

The bill, which has passed in the House three times before, would create stricter requirements for how and when agencies must disclose the cost of rules.

The Office of Management and Budget said H.R. 50 would introduce needless uncertainty into agency decision-making and undermine the ability of agencies to provide critical public health and safety protections.  

“H.R. 50 would create needless grounds for judicial review, unduly slowing and increasing the cost of the regulatory process,” the office said in statement. 

“Creating new requirements subject to judicial review would unnecessarily add to the already robust analytical and procedural requirements of the rulemaking process, and potentially lower the flexibility of future Administrations of either party to tailor regulatory review procedures to changing circumstances.