House committee holds hearing on OIRA and regulatory reform, DOJ files suit to block state voting law, and more…
The House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) and regulatory reform.
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) special rules for adjudication proceedings went into effect as per Dodd-Frank.
- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit to block North Carolina’s new voting law.
- The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) renewed the small business advisory committee.
- OIRA Administrator Howard Shelanski said the government shutdown might stall the agency’s reduction of backlogged rules.
- The Office of the Federal Register responded to a petition to amend the rules for incorporating material into the Code of Federal Regulations
- The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule including more domestic workers under the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- Ron Binz, President Barack Obama’s pick for the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC), withdrew his name from consideration.
- Federal and state officials said that the “visits to their exchanges was greater than anticipated” as health insurance exchanges open.
- The United States and ninety United Nations members signed the first treaty regulating the global arms trade.
- A New Jersey court found that same sex couples must be permitted to marry.
- The global airline industry backed the global regulation of its carbon dioxide emissions to avoid patchwork regulation.
- The Michigan Treasury Department ruled that same-sex spouses are required to file separate tax returns.
