In Episode 2, we zoom in on OIRA — the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — the roughly 50-person office inside OMB that reviews every significant federal regulation before it can take effect. We cover where OIRA sits in the government, its three core functions (regulatory review, Paperwork Reduction Act oversight, and statistical policy), how the 90-day review clock really works, who gets to meet with OIRA and how those meetings are tracked, and the Unified Agenda, the government’s biannual regulatory forecast.
Episode 002
In this episode, we cover:
- Where OIRA sits in the executive branch and why its placement matters
- OIRA’s three functions: regulatory review, Paperwork Reduction Act oversight, and statistical policy
- The 90-day review clock
- The all-time modification rate (38%) vs. the last decade (84%)
- Stakeholder meetings: over 7,700 meetings with nearly 90,000 attendees since 2014
- The Unified Agenda: 237,000+ entries tracking every regulation in the federal pipeline since 1995
- Trump 2.0’s expansion of OIRA review to independent agencies
Links:
- Blog post: What is OIRA?
- Previous episode: What is Executive Order 12866?
- Track rules under OIRA review: app.regulationroundup.com
- Next in this series: What is the Federal Register?
Connect:
- Website: regulationroundup.com
- Dashboard: app.regulationroundup.com
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