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Obama Acts to Limit New Federal Rules

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- President Obama, through his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel (at right), has acted swiftly to stall implementation of the spate of rulemaking by the outgoing Bush Administration. In the last days of the last administration, several rules concerning important, sensitive, and controversial issues were promulgated by various branches of the Federal government, despite pledges to not do so after opposing similar (but much less controversial or extensive) actions by the Clinton administration in its last days. These actions also were contrary to Presidential Advisor Josh Bolten's directive, from last May, that agencies should not promote...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).