The Fall 2021 Unified Agenda Of Federal Regulations Delivers On Biden’s Promises Of Government Activism

The Fall 2021 Unified Agenda Of Federal Regulations Delivers On Biden’s Promises Of Government Activism

Share to Linkedin Each Spring and Fall since the 1980s, federal agencies have highlighted some of their regulatory priorities in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: U. S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders ... [+] at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden became the 46th president of the United States earlier today during the ceremony at the U. S. Capitol. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The little-known Agenda provides a freeze-frame of rules moving through the pipeline at diverse states of urgency, along with showcasing a subset of rules recently finalized. Elections or other political motives can affect prioritization and cause agencies to accelerate certain rulemaking or abstain and report fewer rules. These can affect the Agenda's content and heft. But that may be less of a factor in the Biden administration, never subtle in either its spending or regulatory ambitions during the campaign. On the spending side and in the context of the Covid pandemic, the Biden administration early on promised, along with with other G7 leaders, to keep the "taps