Most of the rules that actually govern your life aren’t written by anyone you voted for — they’re issued by agencies that industry lobbies in private and the public never sees. This statute forces the big ones into the open: honest, independent cost-and-benefit analysis, a real congressional check, and a lever the people themselves can pull to force a rule under review.
The regulations that shape your water, your medicine, your paycheck, your air were written by agencies — shaped by the industries they’re supposed to police, in meetings the public never sees.Check it
When an agency was captured, it wrote rules that served the captor. When it was gutted, it simply stopped protecting you. Either way, you had no lever.Check it
The "cost-benefit" numbers used to justify or kill a rule came from interested parties, tilted to whatever answer power wanted.Check it
And once a rule was in place, an ordinary person had no realistic way to force anyone to look at it again.Check it
Every major rule gets an honest, published analysis from a nonpartisan office — built like the CBO, insulated from the industries and from removal for its conclusions.
Major regulations face a real congressional check before they bind you, and a clear process to nullify a bad one — with reissuing the same gutted rule prohibited.
The cost-and-benefit math is done in the open, by people barred from cashing out to lobbyists, with a funded floor no majority can quietly starve.
And the people get their own trigger: a citizen petition can force a rule under review, tied straight into the national referendum process.
The numbers justifying a rule came from the agency or the industry with a stake in the outcome — cooked to fit.Check it
A nonpartisan Congressional Regulatory Review Office — merit-hired like the CBO, its staff barred from lobbying for two years after — produces the analysis. Its director can’t be fired for the office’s conclusions, and its funding has a floor no majority can drop without a 60% supermajority.
Compliance costs were inflated and benefits erased — or the reverse — depending on who the rule served.Check it
Every major rule gets a written analysis quantifying real compliance costs by industry and business size, against real projected benefits to health, safety, environment, and consumers — a straight accounting, published.
Major rules took effect on an agency’s say-so, with no meaningful moment of accountability to the people’s representatives.Check it
Major rules must run the submission-and-review process before issuing, with emergency rules held to a genuine emergency standard — not a loophole to skip scrutiny.
A harmful rule could sit indefinitely, and even when struck could be quietly reissued in the same form.Check it
Congress can nullify a rule by concurrent resolution through a defined process, and reissuing the same nullified rule is prohibited — no laundering it back into force.
Ordinary people had no way to force the government to reexamine a rule that was hurting them.Check it
A citizen petition can trigger review of a rule, wired directly into the national referendum process — the public gets a real lever, and standing to enforce every part of this in court.
This is the plain-language version. The binding text is CS-29, which implements Article Twenty-Four of the Constitution.
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