Know thy Enemy - Federal Regulation

A Primer on the Accountability of Federal Regulation
Speaker: Susan E. Dudley, Director, Regulatory Studies Center, George Washington University

Summary: Government grows. It grows as the economy grows; it grows as the economy shrinks; it grows by leaps and bounds in any kind of emergency. Government programs grow when they succeed; often they grow even more when they fail. Compared to government spending, which is tracked and debated through the fiscal budget, government regulatory programs are less transparent and accountable, and often their effects are less well-understood. Susan E. Dudley, an expert on government regulation and its effects, will share her insight on how the federal regulatory process does and does not operate, how federal regulations proceed through the process of centralized Executive Branch review, and offer her thoughts on how the federal regulatory process may change in the future.