Sunstein Encourages FCC, Others to Submit Regulatory Review Plan

Cass Sunstein, who heads the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Regulatory Affairs, told the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee that he had not gotten a review regulatory review plan from the Federal Communications Commission for addressing the costs and benefits of its regulations, but was hopeful that would be forthcoming from it and other independent agencies.

A FCC source says commission will implement intent of President Obama's order, but not submit formal plan. Independent agencies like the FCC are not subject to the order. "We are implementing [the executive order's] intent," said an FCC source speaking on background, "but as an independent agency we are not formally submitting a plan," he said. Sunstein said he was encouraging the FCC, FTC and other independent agencies to weigh in, but had, to date, only gotten one page of suggestions from the National Labor Relations Board.