The ability of the Office of Management and Budget to delay important federal agency regulations goes beyond energy efficiency standards for household appliances ("Pollution Rules Delayed as White House Slows the Process of Reviews," news article, June 13).
In "Rules Delayed, Governing Denied" (editorial, Aug. 12), you write that "well-crafted rules are necessary to ensure fairness, health and safety in a complex, industrialized society, and are a necessary responsibility of government".
LONDON - As the Continent grapples with the sovereign debt crisis, financial regulatory revision in Europe has been put on the back burner, with some rules delayed until at least 2013.
And he said he would step up asset sales to fund £5 billion of investment, sweep away planning rules delaying home-building on brownfield sites and create British Wealth Funds to encourage local government pension funds to invest in infrastructure.
As a consequence of these two issues, a full cohort of the population may be functionally illiterate....strict enforcement of World Bank Group rules delayed procurement of four new hospitals for a full year.The New York Times has more.
The letter, from the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards, comes in response to a December Washington Post story detailing a number of environmental, health, and worker safety rules delayed until after the 2012 election in order to avoid controversy.
As several exogenous factors (e.g. European tender rules) delayed the adoption and stretched the transition process, potentially obsolete SFM equipment did not immediately become a deadweight.
DealBook » Lawmakers Said to Support Volcker Rule Delay | Two lawmakers on the Senate banking committee are expected to back legislation that would delay the July 21 start of the Volcker Rule, as the language of the rule might not be ready in time, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A Volcker Rule delay would be a major boon to the nation's largest banks.
