It is time for the Congress and the President to take down the artificial and increasingly arbitrary wall that insulates independent agencies from OIRA's review.
I think we have lost the why they were created, because they were supposed to be non-political.
Do we need agents to have better independent agencies anymore, and if we do, how do we reform them?
we are creating more and more sense that they really are truly independent of everyone, and with no accountability, we have a big issue.
It is just 'did you do everything you said you were going to do'?
Just needs to be fixed, that is all it is. Just one little word change.
By the way, there are some proposals that are floating around now that a group of us have floated on reforming the budget process.
They were going to be specialized in their area to be able to get faster, non-political responses.
If anyone is keeping score on this, it has been 20 years since Congress has passed a budget without a CR before it.
I think you could also accomplish some of those same things with advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and get more people at the table ear...
we are going to continue to over-delegate responsibility, I think, to executive and independent agencies.