September 26, 2011 at 09:31 PM
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a new bill to reform the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) governing how OSHA and other agencies craft their rules, which activists fear would create a cost-benefit analysis “super-mandate” that overrides statutes limiting economic considerations in developing regulations. Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Mark Pryor (D-AR), both on the Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee, on Sept. 22 introduced S. 1606 to reform the APA. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), administrative law panel chairman Howard Coble (R-NC) an