In 2008, legislation imposing stricter regulations on credit card companies and allowing bankruptcy judges to modify the terms of primary mortgages in bankruptcy stalled in Congress, while legislators resisted including improvements to food safety regulations in a bill strengthening the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Republicans have already targeted three Interior Department regulations; Trump signed a bill undoing regulations to protect waterways from from coal mining operations on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Senate voted down a Republican bill to stop new regulations on utility emissions.
On Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth day in office, in 1933, Congress convened in a special session more productive than any since the days of the founders, approving jobs programs, banking regulation, a farm bill, deposit insurance and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The specific regulations called for in a bill, once passed, must also survive the scrutiny and influence of special interest groups, which typically work through members of Congress or the upper levels of the executive branch, whose affection they have acquired.
(AP) PATERSON: MUSLIM DIETARY REGULATION Gov. Christine Todd Whitman signed a bill yesterday requiring any dealer or restaurant preparing or selling food designated in the Muslim faith as "halal" -- the Arabic word for permitted -- to post conspicuously that it does so, and hold to those preparation standards.
Ministers normally use regulations to uprate benefits, but a bill is necessary because it is a multi-year settlement.
But the Legislature had approved a bill aligning regulations for children with what is required for adults in the program, which is already considered the nation's strictest.
Last month the board indicated it planned to make the emergency regulations permanent, in part because a bill addressing the issue had stalled in the Legislature.
The overall safety of shale-gas drilling has been a contentious issue recently in Ohio: just last month, the state legislature passed a bill imposing regulations on oil and gas drilling in the state amid criticism that the rules had not been adequately discussed or debated.
