Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Requires executive agencies to publish all non‑binding guidance documents online in a single OMB‑designated location.
Agencies must publish new guidance on issuance and existing guidance within 180 days of enactment.
Rescinded guidance must remain available with rescission notation; FOIA exemptions preserved.
Low‑cost, transparency‑focused, administratively oriented bill has favorable historical prospects, though procedural barriers in the Senate and agency pushback add uncertainty.
How solid the drafting looks.
Left worries about chilling internal deliberations; right emphasizes exposing hidden rules.
Left worries about chilling internal deliberations; right emphasizes exposing hidden rules.
Generally supportive of transparency but cautious.
The persona sees public access as useful for accountability, while fearing publication could chill internal deliberations or enable attacks on protective policies.
Notes FOIA exemptions and the clause preserving guidance validity, but remains concerned about implementation details and enforcement.
Pragmatically favorable to greater transparency and consistency, with caveats.
Sees the single repository as reducing confusion and improving compliance, but worries about implementation costs, timelines, and unintended operational consequences.
Wants clear standards and modest resources to implement the requirement.
Largely supportive as a check on the administrative state and to expose hidden agency directives.
Views the bill as promoting accountability and limiting unelected policymaking through opaque guidance.
Sees FOIA exemptions as acceptable but will press for timely, comprehensive publication and enforcement.
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Still ahead
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Still ahead
Low‑cost, transparency‑focused, administratively oriented bill has favorable historical prospects, though procedural barriers in the Senate and agency pushback add uncertainty.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Left worries about chilling internal deliberations; right emphasizes exposing hidden rules.
Low‑cost, transparency‑focused, administratively oriented bill has favorable historical prospects, though procedural barriers in the Senate…
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