Thursday, November 13, 2008

Not So Fast Bush

On Halloween I wrote about Bush's Last Push To Deregulate. "So Bush is not making the same mistaking and is trying to get stuff through by tomorrow. There are 60 and 30 day congressional review periods for some of these so Nov 20th and Dec 20th are some deadlines on them. "

Apparently there is something called the Congressional Review Act of 1996 and it's The Best Law You've Never Heard Of: "In short, Congress and Obama can repeal any new rule in the next congressional session for up to 60 days. Even better, no filibuster – Senate debate is explicitly limited to 10 hours. I presume the legal eagles working for Obama know all this – but it can’t hurt to remind them."

Politico has more, pointing out that Democrats (including House Global Warming Committee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA)) already know about it.

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