In spite of renewed calls for regulatory measures, OSHA's Mr. Barab said it will be years before the agency settles on a new combustible-dust standard, a key regulatorymeasure recommended by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a separate government agency.
Telecommunication services from telephony to mobile internet access have been able to thrive in large measure because of a stable regulatory structure.
While it is no doubt true that creating regulatory authorities within the government likely produces a measure of over-regulation, this is the price that is paid when business fails to behave in the best interest of their customer you without the government having to tell them to do what they should already be doing on their own.
As radical as the measure is the board believes it is the first such moratorium in American regulatory history there was little opposition to it in Congress.
And Bowles said he would back a measure that would link the buyout to a provision that would give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over tobacco, which the Bush administration opposes.
Why immediately suspend the existing mechanisms for regulatory relief that have been in place since 1999 and which, if not perfect, at least provide some measure of incentive for an IP transition?