Background: Social media, including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other similar technologies, present new opportunities for agencies to engage the public in rulemaking activities...
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The Committee on Rulemaking considers the procedures that agencies use to promulgate, modify or rescind regulations.
Committee Contacts
Committee Meetings & Events
March 25, 2013 Committee Meeting(Committee on Rulemaking)
April 23, 2013 Committee Meeting(Committee on Rulemaking)
November 14, 2012 Committee Meeting(Committee on Rulemaking)
Apr. 20, 2011 Committee Meeting(Committee on Rulemaking)
Mar. 25, 2011 Committee Meeting(Committee on Rulemaking)
Committee Research Projects
Traditionally, the notice-and-comment rulemaking process required by 5 U.S.C. § 553 was conducted on paper: the government issued a paper notice and the public submitted paper comments. Today it...
Read more »This study focused on the many legal issues that arise in e-Rulemaking, including how agencies may use software to determine that submitted comments are identical or nearly identical, and whether...
Read more »Background: In the last three months of a presidential administration, rulemaking activity increases considerably when compared to the same period in a non-transition year.* ...
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Name | Role | Organization |
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Robert S. Rivkin | Committee Chair, Government Member | Department of Transportation |
Gary D. Bass | Public Member | Bauman Foundation |
Elizabeth Dickinson | Government Member | Food and Drug Administration |
Tobias Dorsey | Liaison Representative | U.S. Sentencing Commission |
Neil R. Eisner | Senior Fellow | Department of Transportation |
Cynthia R. Farina | Public Member | Cornell Law School |
John Graham | Public Member | Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs |
Sally Katzen | Senior Fellow | New York University School of Law |
Jerry L. Mashaw | Public Member | Yale Law School |
Randolph J. May | Public Member | Free State Foundation |
Elizabeth A. M. McFadden | Government Member | Department of Education |
Nina Mendelson | Public Member | University of Michigan Law School |
Richard J. Pierce, Jr. | Public Member | The George Washington University Law School |
Teresa Wynn Roseborough | Public Member | The Home Depot |
William B. Schultz | Government Member | Department of Health and Human Services |
Esa L. Sferra Bonistalli | Liaison Representative | Coast Guard |
Robert A. Shapiro | Government Member | Department of Labor |
Carol Ann Siciliano | Government Member | Environmental Protection Agency |
Lon Smith | Government Member | Internal Revenue Service |
Stephen Wood | Liaison Representative | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |