Regulatory Outlook: Sunny if Foggy for 2017
“I believe there will not be a ton of regulations that will go 180 degrees due to the change in administration.” – Bill Sullivan, American Trucking Associations
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“I believe there will not be a ton of regulations that will go 180 degrees due to the change in administration.” – Bill Sullivan, American Trucking Associations
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Politicking is one thing; governing quite another. Politicians may toss off promises willy-nilly to run up votes. But once elected, delivering on those commitments requires them to exquisitely manipulate the levers of governance — skillfully engaging in everything from harnessing public opinion and legislative horse-trading to forcing power plays and forging intricate compromises.
President-Elect Donald Trump has promised to eliminate two regulations for every one enacted. How hard will it be to keep his promises of removing overly burdensome regulations — and which trucking regulations are most likely to be affected?
It would seem easier to accomplish political promises when control of the White House, the Senate, and the House ends up in the hands of one political party, as it did spectacularly in November. When a party scores that trifecta and has a well-defined agenda to pursue under the leadership of a president elected with a popular-vote mandate, remarkable change can be effected in short order.
On the other hand, the majority leaders of any party on Capitol Hill in any year can be counted on to protect the fiefdoms afforded them by the Constitution’s separation of powers principle. For them, the only election that really matters is the next one.
So the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader may not march in lockstep with a president of the same party if, like Trump, he largely does not share their political orthodoxy. That’s because doing so could cost them control of one or both chambers in the 2018 mid-term elections. Even with the Trump effect bolstering their candidates last November, the Democrats still managed to pick up one seat in the Senate and several …Read the rest of this story
