James Lankford

That closes the door to rising, and that is a serious problem.

We have millions of Americans that want to start a business that now, suddenly, every franchiser is deciding, I am not sure I want to have that.

It would be helpful if we knew how that process worked, and right now, that is a black box to us.

The challenge is trying to find it if you are the new person.

We are still a Nation of the people, by the people, for the people, which would mean people should still have engagement with their government.

This is an issue governmentwide. We do have to solve this.

Cost-benefit analysis is a really specific term that is used in the process of rulemaking.

That is a change, where someone who is not under it now suddenly is under it by a shift, by design.

So, you literally had entities that were--previously, let us say, two of those were met, but not three. They are not affected. Now, they are affected.

Even the Department of Education put out a press release related to that saying that this is groundbreaking.

If we are going to do that, should we not actually go through the full process and to be able to say, new people are affected by this that were not previously affected.

Significant and guidance is really the exception, not the rule.

Make it stop. Every time I turn on my computer in the morning, there is a new set of guidance that are coming down to me.

That rule as it stands now, and that conversation about that from the NLRB, could have some of the most significant long-term impact on our economy

Well, since we are jumping in here, can I just ask a quick follow up. How many agencies have a process where they are systematically going back through their guidance documents...

The assumption is made, of course, everyone is keeping up to date with our guidance

I hear from them that they feel the government is really out to get them through some of these memorandums and changes.

Developing their own process seems to go away and you just have to do it this way

Thank you, all of you, and I am going to do a quick set of questions here and we will go through at a pretty rapid pace on this and then start moving around.

Do you believe that memo is an agency guidance? Is that the perspective that it is a guidance document, not a new regulation, when that came out?

We are absolutely taking seriously some of the recommendations from GAO.

Do you believe that is also agency guidance?

This does not feel like it went through APA if you are those affected.

Just some way to be able to get it all.

There is an expectation, as you mentioned before, there are very few significant guidance documents