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I guess that depends - is it a frequent occurrence, historically?

It happens all the time. It is a completely mundane part of the daily functioning of government.

Further there are often laws that basically state "here's some general guide, executive agency X will figure out the specifics and publish that in the Fed Register as regulations."

The law instructs them to write the rules / guidance.It’s their responsibility to then do that and we fund them to do that.

Agencies don’t get funded to write the law that gives them the mandate to write the regulation. That’s a classic bureaucratic self-licking ice cream cone.

In my experience this is not at all normal. Any more examples off-hand if agencies writing draft legislation? Not talking rulemaking, talking actual law. Would happily be proven wrong here but it’s something I have actively seen agencies avoid in the past, so I’m curious where you’ve seen this kind of overt draft legislation written.

See my response to your other comment above.

Thanks. Seems like I’m mistaken about this or my experience is not as common. Appreciate the links.

I’d be interested if they always came with a press release and public quotes / pressure - but maybe that’s in the ACU report. Haven’t gotten all the way through it yet.

That does seem a bit unusual but then again the amount of attention that social media (and media in general) is getting lately is basically off the charts.

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