There will be limits on how much TVE can bid for sports and film rights, and rules on industry consolidation are being relaxed.
There have been efforts afoot in the Legislature to tighten the rules on industry donations to Railroad Commissioners, but the commissioners say that such rules would be stricter than those for other elected state officials.
While fair winds and cleansing rains may take some credit, so do increasingly stringent environmental rules, which call for cleaner fuels, catalytic converters on cars, emissions tests and rules on industry.
He also suggested giving the U.S. trade representative more power to negotiate trade agreements with foreign countries and to rule on industry complaints.
The 1998 task force on electricity reliability recommended that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission be given legal authority to impose rules on the industry.
The commission, however, was never given the authority to impose rules on the industry by Congress, and few utilities have made significant investments in their transmission systems.
A council of top regulators was set to meet on Tuesday to determine how to impose new rules on the industry after a few S.E.C. commissioners scuttled a previous push to improve the safety and transparency of the funds.
In an interview, Mr. Spitzer said the Federal Communications Commission's talks with four radio conglomerates over what Spitzer termed modest fines and reforms, could undercut his efforts to force tougher sanctions and rules on the industry.
While the S.E.C. imposed some new rules on the industry soon after the crisis, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, have said that money market funds are still vulnerable to the type of runs that nearly brought the industry down in 2008.
Eventually, Congress stepped in to impose some relatively modest consumer protection rules on the industry--in 2009.
