1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i OMB Issues New CRA Guidance, Potentially Changing Relationship with Independent Agencies Maeve P. Carey Specialist in Government Organization and Management May 21, 2019 On April 11, 2019, the acting director of the Office
2、 of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum to agencies on implementation of the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The memorandum discussed the types of agency actions covered by the CRA and, for some agencies, established a new process for determining whether rules are “major” under the CRA.
3、The most noteworthy effects of the memorandum are its apparent changes to rulemaking procedures for statutorily designated independent regulatory agencies, sometimes also referred to as independent regulatory commissions(IRCs). Depending on how the memorandum is implemented, those changes could be s
4、ignificant for two main reasons. First, the requirement for IRCs to submit rules to OMB before publication could alter the relationship between the President (through OMB) and those agencies, which were statutorily designed by Congress to be at least partially independent from presidential control.
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