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THE VIEWS OF THE ADMINISTRATION ON REGULATORY REFORM HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JANUARY 26, 2011 Serial No. 112–1 ( Printed for the use of the Committee on Energy and Commerce energycommerce.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 64–695 PDF WASHINGTON : 2011 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Nov 24 2008 12:27 Apr 25, 2011 Jkt 037690 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 P:\MY DOCS\HEARINGS 112\112-1 012611\112-1 CHRIS COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE FRED UPTON, Michigan Chairman JOE BARTON, Texas HENRY A. WAXMAN, California Chairman Emeritus Ranking Member CLIFF STEARNS, Florida JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan, Chairman ED WHITFIELD, Kentucky Emeritus JOHN SHIMKUS, Illinois EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts JOSEPH R. PITTS, Pennsylvania EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York MARY BONO MACK, California FRANK PALLONE, JR., New Jersey GREG WALDEN, Oregon BOBBY L. RUSH, Illinois LEE TERRY, Nebraska ANNA G. ESHOO, California MIKE ROGERS, Michigan ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York SUE MYRICK, North Carolina GENE GREEN, Texas Vice Chair DIANA DEGETTE, Colorado JOHN SULLIVAN, Oklahoma LOIS CAPPS, California TIM MURPHY, Pennsylvania JANE HARMAN, California MICHAEL C. BURGESS, Texas JAN SCHAKOWSKY, Illinois MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee CHARLES A. GONZALEZ, Texas BRIAN BILBRAY, California JAY INSLEE, Washington CHARLIE BASS, New Hampshire TAMMY BALDWIN, Wisconsin PHIL GINGREY, Georgia MIKE ROSS, Arkansas STEVE SCALISE, Louisiana ANTHONY D. WEINER, New York BOB LATTA, Ohio JIM MATHESON, Utah CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, Washington G.K. BUTTERFIELD, North Carolina GREGG HARPER, Mississippi JOHN BARROW, Georgia LEONARD LANCE, New Jersey DORIS O. MATSUI, California BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana BRETT GUTHRIE, Kentucky PETE OLSON, Texas DAVID MCKINLEY, West Virginia CORY GARDNER, Colorado MIKE POMPEO, Kansas ADAM KINZINGER, Illinois MORGAN GRIFFITH, Virginia PROFESSIONAL STAFF GARY ANDRES, Staff Director JAMES D. BARNETTE, General Counsel PHILIP S. BARNETT, Minority Staff Director (II) VerDate Nov 24 2008 12:27 Apr 25, 2011 Jkt 037690 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 8486 Sfmt 8486 P:\MY DOCS\HEARINGS 112\112-1 012611\112-1 CHRIS SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS CLIFF STEARNS, Florida Chairman SUE MYRICK, North Carolina DIANA DEGETTE, Colorado MARSHA BLACKBURN, Tennessee Ranking Member LEE TERRY, Nebraska JAN SCHAKOWSKY, Illinois JOHN SULLIVAN, Oklahoma MIKE ROSS, Arkansas TIM MURPHY, Pennsylvania ANTHONY D. WEINER, New York MICHAEL C. BURGESS, Texas EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts BRIAN BILBRAY, California GENE GREEN, Texas PHIL GINGREY, Georgia CHARLES A. GONZALEZ, Texas STEVE SCALISE, Louisiana JOHN D. DINGELL, Michigan CORY GARDNER, Colorado HENRY A. WAXMAN, California (ex officio) MORGAN GRIFFITH, Virginia JOE BARTON, Texas FRED UPTON, Michigan (ex officio) (III) VerDate Nov 24 2008 12:27 Apr 25, 2011 Jkt 037690 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\MY DOCS\HEARINGS 112\112-1 012611\112-1 CHRIS VerDate Nov 24 2008 12:27 Apr 25, 2011 Jkt 037690 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\MY DOCS\HEARINGS 112\112-1 012611\112-1 CHRIS C O N T E N T S Page Hon. Cliff Stearns, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida, opening statement ................................................................................................ 2 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 3 Hon. Diana DeGette, a Representative in Congress from the State of Colo- rado, opening statement ...................................................................................... 5 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 6 Hon. Fred Upton, a Representative in Congress from the State of Michigan, opening statement ................................................................................................ 7 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 8 Hon. Joe Barton, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, opening statement ................................................................................................ 8 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 9 Hon. Cory Gardner, a Representative in Congress from the State of Colorado, opening statement ................................................................................................ 10 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 11 Hon. Henry A. Waxman, a Representative in Congress from the State of California, opening statement ............................................................................. 12 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 13 Hon. John D. Dingell, a Representative in Congress from the State of Michi- gan, prepared statement ...................................................................................... 24 Hon. Greg Walden, a Representative in Congress from the State of Oregon, prepared statement .............................................................................................. 25 WITNESSES Cass R. Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Af- fairs ....................................................................................................................... 28 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 31 Answers to submitted questions ...................................................................... 113 SUBMITTED MATERIAL Supplemental memorandum, dated January 26, 2010, submitted by Mr. Wax- man ........................................................................................................................ 15 ‘‘Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System,’’ article dated January 18, 2011, by Barack Obama, Wall Street Journal ............................................................. 78 ‘‘The EPA’s War on Texas,’’ article dated January 4, 2011, Wall Street Jour- nal .......................................................................................................................... 80 Subcommittee exhibit binder .................................................................................. 82 ‘‘EPA ‘confident’ Obama reg policy won’t affect new climate rules,’’ article dated January 18, 2011, by Andrew Restuccia, The Hill ................................. 118 (V) VerDate Nov 24 2008 12:27 Apr 25, 2011 Jkt 037690 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\MY DOCS\HEARINGS 112\112-1 012611\112-1 CHRIS VerDate Nov 24 2008 12:27 Apr 25, 2011 Jkt 037690 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\MY DOCS\HEARINGS 112\112-1 012611\112-1 CHRIS THE VIEWS OF THE ADMINISTRATION ON REGULATORY REFORM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:02 a.m., in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Cliff Stearns (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Members present: Representatives Stearns, Terry, Sullivan, Mur- phy, Burgess, Blackburn, Myrick, Bilbray, Gingrey, Scalise, Gard- ner, Griffith, Barton, McKinley, Upton (ex officio), DeGette, Schakowsky, Weiner, Markey, Green, Gonzalez, Dingell, and Wax- man (ex officio). Staff present: Karen Christian, counsel; Stacy Cline, counsel; Todd Harrison, chief counsel; Sean Hayes, counsel; Alan Slobodin, deputy chief counsel; Sam Spector, counsel; Peter Spencer, profes- sional staff member; Kristin Amerling, minority chief counsel; Karen Nelson, minority deputy committee staff director, health; Karen Lightfoot, minority communications director and senior pol- icy advisor; Greg Dotson, minority chief counsel, energy and envi- ronment; Alexandra Teitz, minority senior counsel; Stacia Cardille, minority counsel; Tiffany Benjamin, minority counsel; Anne Tindall, minority counsel; Ali Neubauer, minority investigator; Brian Cohen, minority senior investigator and policy advisor; Jen- nifer Berenholz, minority chief clerk; Lindsay Vidal, minority dep- uty press secretary; and Mitchell Smiley, special assistant. Mr. STEARNS. Good morning everybody, and let me welcome all of you to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. We appreciate your early attendance, and if possible, we would like to start promptly at 10:00. I would also like to point out that Chair- man Upton has indicated that this will be a very active sub- committee. It is a very important subcommittee. I think most of us on both sides of the aisle realize that Congress, the House of Rep- resentatives, has a very important role in oversight of the Execu- tive Branch. In this case, there are many areas that we can explore both in a way that is substantive and at the same time, I think, in a bipartisan way to have a better understanding of where there is error, where there is complement, and in the long run to give full oversight to the Executive Branch according to the Constitu- tion. So I welcome this opportunity as chairman of this very impor- tant subcommittee,