The Game-Changing Biden Order You Haven't Heard About

[DonViejo]

POLITICS 01/24/2021 05:45 am ET

A directive about the regulatory process could lead to progressive movement on climate change, public health and worker safety.

By Kevin Robillard

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden quickly set about undoing some of his predecessor’s signature policies: He said the United States would rejoin the Paris Agreement; he halted construction of a wall along the Mexican border; and he ended the ban on travel to the U.S. from Muslim-majority countries.

Tucked into all of those high-profile moves, though, was a memo with a title seemingly designed to be ignored: “Modernizing Regulatory Review.” Sent to the press at 9:43 p.m. on Wednesday in the middle of the Tom Hanks-led inaugural celebration, the White House was not expecting the dry document to drive headlines or set American hearts aflutter.

But the memo could unleash a wave of stronger regulations to reduce income inequality, fight climate change and protect public health. Among left-leaning experts on regulation, it’s a signal that Biden could break with 40 years of conservative policy.

“I realize what I’m about to say to you sounds absurd,” James Goodwin, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Progressive Reform, told HuffPost. “It

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-order-progressive-regulation_n_6009dabec5b6efae63002e20

[underpants]

1. Very interesting

I’d never heard of OIRA not that really means anything but apparently a lot of people did.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Sounds promising...

'bout time we started shifting more towards worker and public health and safety and tone down the "business-friendly" shit.

Hopeful.

[Delphinus]

3. You said it!

Hopeful here too.

[mac2766]

10. Absolutely agree...

When a CEO can make 140 million a year and justify laying off thousands of workers to "cut" overhead, something is wrong. While I wasn't one of the employees let go, thankfully, I was witness to the mass firing. Not one word was mentioned about "cutting overhead" by reducing executive salaries.

[jcboon]

4. This is great news

[2naSalit]

5. That was one of the best under the radar moves to make.

From what I recall, there has been a long decline in the manner of activity regarding regulatory policy. Sounds really wonky but it's the best way to describe it. It's a reset to the practices of the policy-making process. Has anyone noticed that we haven't seen a policy made in the last four years where we the people were given appropriate opportunity to participate in public comment sessions regarding rules, policies and laws?

I expect that there will be a return to policy-making that includes the public in the process. It's how it's supposed to work. This is a participatory government, we need to participate in the prescribed fashion. This memo is enabling us to participate again.

That's only an example of what the memo set in motion. It will help to comb through all the pos policies enacted in the last four years which were designed to break the system.

This is bigger than it looks, and it's really good

[electric_blue68]

29. Heh, sure seems like it 👍

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. First one hundred days, baby!

[mountain grammy]

7. Good news.

Go left Joe, go left! It’s where most of us are.

[PatrickforO]

8. Republicans will be against THAT for sure.

Biden’s order appears set to dramatically overhaul that process, saying regulatory reviews should instead promote “public health and safety, economic growth, social welfare, racial justice, environmental stewardship, human dignity, equity, and the interests of future generations.” It also says OIRA’s director should proactively encourage agencies to develop rules that benefit the public.

Nope. Anything that promotes health, safety and especially racial justice, and environmental stewardship will be strongly opposed by the GOP. They wanted reviews to be weakened by a review of the cost of the regulation to corporate profits.

Good job, Joe!

[calimary]

25. Indeed so! Good job, Joe!

Restoring America’s faith and trust, one speech and executive order at a time.

[Hortensis]

9. :) NOT a surprise. Because of who these people are and what they believe in.

They're constantly telling us. Those whose understandings are poisoned by the deceits of opponents and hostile agents don't know it, of course, and that's an ongoing tragedy.

Btw, take a look below. Pelosi's quoted, but all our top Democratic leaders know it.

It's always a question of finally getting enough power long enough to make it happen. Obama started, Trump erased his advances and dragged us much farther into the hole.

[aggiesal]

11. Words matter and (R)'s are really good at it ...

You say Privatize, I say PROFITIZE
You say Regulations, I say PROTECTIONS

“Modernizing Regulatory Review.” ... could unleash a wave of stronger PROTECTIONS to reduce income inequality, fight climate change and protect public health.

If a bill is designed to PROTECT, (R)'s will support it if it's designed to protect the corporations and the Greedy One Percent (GOP).
If it's designed to PROTECT the rest of us, (R)'s will NOT support it.

[wryter2000]

15. Unbelievable

I think we may have a new FDR.

[aggiesal]

19. Most of FDR's policies, would currently be labeled "Radical Left Agenda" ...

California had the public education system that was the envy of the world.
Any state resident that got accepted into any state public school, including State Community Colleges and State Universities, would have their education completely paid for, up to receiving a PhD.
California only charged the Out-Of-State students until they lived here for a year and became state residents.

When Reagan was governor, he said "Why should we pay for your college education, when after 4 years, you'll protest everything I'm for?"
So he got rid of free public college education.

Now when we ask for free college, there are those in this forum that think we can't have that, because it's too radical.

In San Diego, it costs more that $10,000 per student per year to educate them. How many people could afford that if they had to pay out of pocket. If you could, you'd probably send your kids to a for profit (i.e. private) school.

I've had RW friends that vote down any PROPOSITIONS in California that considers more money for schools, because they don't have any children attending public schools or have graduated, so why should they vote to give more money to schools?

So I then ask my RW friend; "Did you attend Public Schools?" Most always say YES.
So I follow up with "Who paid for your education? Could your parents have been able to afford for profit (private) school fees to send you to a public school? Time for you to pony up, for your education that others paid for."

[drmeow]

22. There is a reason why

f**king Republicans worship Reagan. I used to fights with friends in HS (in Orange County, CA) about how horrible he was. I took one HS economic class the year of his first term and recognized that he wanted to return us to 1910. I hope he is in Hell.

[yonder]

16. +1.

[nam78_two]

12. That is great.nt

[JohnnyRingo]

13. I hope everyone who visits this post follows the link

Because it's too deep for a capsule description.
Anything that overturns something Reagan did is good in my book. The Reagan era was the genesis of many of our woes today. His actions have to be reversed as voodoo economic policy.

K&R.

[wryter2000]

14. Holy crap...more from the article

Biden’s order appears set to dramatically overhaul that process, saying regulatory reviews should instead promote “public health and safety, economic growth, social welfare, racial justice, environmental stewardship, human dignity, equity, and the interests of future generations.” It also says OIRA’s director should proactively encourage agencies to develop rules that benefit the public.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. Aren't these pretty much in keeping with

the Catholic Social Teaching principles?

[wryter2000]

23. They are in keeping with everything the Episcopal Church stands for

So I imagine they're Catholic as well.

I was reading this to some church friends this morning, and I said, "This sounds like what we hear in church." The bishop was in on the zoom call and agreed.

[calimary]

28. Yep.

Sure sounds like it.

[yonder]

17. This is a great post, thanks. Please go to the link.

It's given me an understanding of a regulatory aspect I was unaware of. This change should have a big impact on considerations for what really is the public good.

[JudyM]

20. Government *for* the people. More radical now than it was at our founding.

Good on Biden. This post gives me more hope.

Like this did: https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-redefines-the-purpose-of-a-corporation-to-promote-an-economy-that-serves-all-americans

[liberalla]

21. I'm very hopeful this wiil help roll back the anti-human, conservative policy slant

in previous regulatory decisions! It's thrilling to think of the long ranging, progressive, expanding, positive effects this could have going forward!

This is "trickle-down" I approve of!

[BobTheSubgenius]

24. This seems like a real wait-and-see issue.

For good or bad, most changes to policy are judged, at least in large part, on their financial aspects. This one seems to have a very....let's say ephemeral...cost-benefit ratio.

[calimary]

26. Need to be sure to keep this one.

[dalton99a]

27. Kick