In Brief: Regulatory reform
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Regulatory reform: Legislation may be taken up on the Senate floor as early as the week of June 19, Hill staffers indicate. A bipartisan group has been preparing a compromise version of regulatory reform legislation since mid-May. The compromise bill is understood to contain portions of other regulatory reform bills under consideration in the Senate, including bills introduced by Government Affairs Committee Chairman Sen. William Roth (R-Delaware) and Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kansas). Floor debate is expected to center on the bill's provisions regarding regulatory risk assessment, judicial review and the repeal of the Delaney Clause's de minimus standard for carcinogenic agents...