-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bush Will Review Clinton's Last-Minute Avalanche of Regulations NewsMax.com Wires Saturday, Jan. 6, 2001 WASHINGTON (UPI) – Republicans complain that President Clinton is scrambling to issue last-minute orders to tie the hands of the incoming Republican administration. But President-elect Bush plans to review the avalanche of regulations. Ari Fleischer, spokesman for President-elect Bush, said Friday that the Bush transition team is keeping track of Clinton's initiatives. He promised that Bush would review them and take any corrective action deemed necessary after he is sworn in Jan. 20. Fleischer avoided criticizing Clinton. "It is the president's prerogative to do as he sees fit. We will not comment on the many activities he is pursuing and pursuing aggressively." Still, Fleischer observed, "He has been a busy beaver." The Clinton administration has issued major rules and orders since the election, including: Friday's announcement limiting timber harvests in millions of acres of federal forests. A rule from the Department of Housing and Urban Development requiring that government housing be integrated by race and income. An Environmental Protection Agency rule mandating the use of cleaner diesel gasoline that the oil industry says it cannot produce. A major new regulation requiring employers to take steps to protect workers from repetitive motion injuries. Clinton also snubbed Republicans by signing a controversial treaty to establish an international war crimes tribunal. According to regulatory experts, it is not unusual for a lame-duck administration to issue a large batch of rules and orders between the election and the transfer of power, particularly when the transition is from one party to the other. George Mason University's Mercatus Center conducted a study of so-called midnight regulations since the Truman administration, and has found that Clinton, while not inventing the practice, may set a record. 29,000 Pages of Rules in a Few Weeks According to researcher Jay Cochran, the outgoing Carter administration, preparing for the incoming Reagan administration, printed in the Federal Register 24,500 pages of new regulations between the election and the inauguration. The Clinton administration is on pace to publish more than 29,000 pages, Cochran said, covering "hundreds of rules." Some of the rules are major policy decisions that attract a great deal of attention and generate the public opposition of major interest groups. But others are relatively minor bureaucratic decisions that can have significant long-term implications. For example, over the Christmas season, Clinton announced more than $1 billion in federal grants for state homeless assistance programs. According to housing experts, the grants are part of HUD's annual announcement of billions of dollars of federal money that is available for grants. The announcement – known as the "super-NOFA," or "notice of funding availability" – does not determine who will receive the money, but it commits the government to giving it away. HUD spokesman Lee Jones said the other pieces of the super-NOFA are traditionally released "in late January or early February" and that if the Clinton administration issues it, the Bush team "can always pull it back." But he emphasized that it was a bureaucratic rulemaking that distributes money already budgeted by Congress, and that it did not traditionally require any decisions by senior political appointees. One transition official who asked not to be named told UPI that the late flurry of Clinton rules did not stop the Bush administration from implementing its agenda, but "it is a nuisance." This source said, "There are some things that once you do them it can be problematic to undo them." But this official added that once the Bush team takes office, there are mechanisms it can use to overturn almost any decision the Clinton administration has made. The job for the incoming Bush administration, this official said, will be to separate those rules that can be reversed easily from those that will create major legal or political headaches, and then choosing which battles are worth fighting. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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