Twenty-one Republican senators want President Joe Biden to reconsider revoking his predecessor’s Executive Order telling federal agencies to publish guidance on how they interpret and apply regulations. On his first day in the Oval Office, Biden revoked former President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13891 that required creation of a public database of agency guidance documents, based on a bill in Congress with bipartisan support, the Guidance Out of Darkness Act (GOOD). “Without explanation, you described this executive order as one of the ‘harmful policies and directives that threaten to frustrate the federal government’s ability to confront [the (COVID19) pandemic, economic recovery, racial justice, and climate change],’ and you claimed — again without explanation — that its revocation was necessary to provide federal agencies the ‘flexibility to use robust regulatory action to address national priorities,’” the senators told Biden in a Feb. 8 letter. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the ranking …
GOP Senators Ask Biden to Reconsider Cancelling a Trump Regulatory Transparency Database
February 9, 2021
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