Regulation and regulatory reform: a survey of proposals of the 95th Congress. [Monograph]

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:5411920

The 95th Congress responded to those seeking an increased reliance on the market place by lessening Federal regulation of the airlines, natural gas, the communications industry, and others and by defeating a number of proposals to impose new regulations. Major regulations were imposed, however, to halt foreign influence payments by corporations, to make strip mining less damaging, and to encourage commercial fuel users to switch to coal. There was little accomplished in the area of procedural reforms except for finance disclosure and product safety. The limited progress in which the Senate took more positive action than the House was due to a basic disagreement over which regulations need reform; compromise being possible only where the conflict was over priority rather than substance. The bills which were enacted are analyzed and the procedural changes are shown to respond to either consumer and environmental concerns or to those of the business community. Substantive changes are described by the increase or decrease in regulatory control. A box score of 37 bills that passed Congress, 71 that failed to pass, and a list of related bills with regulatory implications are included in the appendix. (DCK)

• OSTI ID: 5411920
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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LEGAL INCENTIVES
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