Covington & Burling LLP | USA | 27 Sep 2023
Unless Congress reaches an agreement to keep the lights on, the U.S. government appears headed for a shutdown at midnight on October 1. As the…
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP | USA | 19 May 2023
On May 16, 2023, President Joseph Biden vetoed the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would have nullified the temporary moratorium on…
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | USA | 16 Mar 2021
A unified Congress has the opportunity to reverse “midnight rules”- those regulations finalized in the waning days of the Trump administration -…
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | USA | 21 Jan 2021
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order titled “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 29 Oct 2020
Capping off months of proposed rules and settlements addressing marketplace lending issues, on October 27, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the…
Greenberg Traurig LLP | USA | 12 May 2020
Starting in February 2017, Congress passed resolutions to nullify 16 different federal regulations, including the “stream protection rule,” a drug…
Mayer Brown | USA | 28 Jan 2020
On December 18, 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules for the reporting of certain payments by resource extraction…
Steptoe LLP | Global, USA | 23 Jan 2020
On July 15, 2019, Heath Tarbert was sworn in as the 14th Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission).[1] Over the…
Mayer Brown | USA | 1 May 2019
On April 8, 2019, Commissioner Hester Peirce of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) delivered a speech entitled “SECret Garden” at the…
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | USA | 30 Apr 2019
A recent policy statement from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructs departments and agencies—including independent agencies like…