Insiders Talk Guide to Executive Branch Agency Rulemaking: Policy, Procedure, Participation, and Post-Promulgation Appeal

Guyer, Robert L; Micheli, Chris M

ISBN 10: 1732343136 / ISBN 13: 9781732343139

Published by Engineering the Law, Inc., 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Insiders Talk Guide to Executive Branch Agency Rulemaking: Policy, Procedure, Participation, and Post-Promulgation Appeal
• Publisher: Engineering the Law, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1732343136
• ISBN 13: 9781732343139
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Guide to Executive Branch Agency Rulemaking trains advocates how to influence the adoption of rules and regulations enforceable on the public. Agency advocacy practice stands upon four principles:

• "The execution of laws is more important than the making of them." (Thomas Jefferson) Rather than ending the regulatory process, a statute initiates a new one, that is, agency adoption of administrative laws.

• You don't have a law until the agency tells you that you have a law. And you don't know what a law means until it tells you what it means. Agencies do both through rulemaking. The real law, that is, law that impacts lives, is found not in broad-brush statutes but in detailed agency rules and enforcement thereof. 

• For every page of legislature-made law, agencies can enact ten pages of highly detailed agency-made law. In other words, 90 percent of the body of regulatory law is written by executive branch agencies.

• What the legislature did an executive agency exercising its discretion can undo via rulemaking, and what the legislature wouldn't do, an executive agency might. 

Tens of thousands of regulatory agencies, departments, boards, and commissions, spending billions of dollars annually, with millions of state employees form the administrative state. In terms of money, staff numbers, reach, and authority the administrative state dwarfs the executive, legislative, and judicial branches combined. Its size, power, wealth, and reach are so substantial it is functionally the fourth branch of government. 
 
The strategies, skills, and techniques provided by this manual equip advocates to influence agencies toward promulgating rules that more fully acknowledge and take into account their principals' interests.

About the Author

Robert L. Guyer is a writer and lecturer with Engineering THE LAW, Inc. in Gainesville, Florida. Previously he served as Legislative Counsel for the Ralston Purina Company; Manager of Legislative Affairs for Energizer Power Systems, and Gates Energy Products, Inc.; and as a contract lobbyist, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation for which he lobbied internationally. Prior to becoming a lobbyist, he served as a pollution control inspector for a regulatory agency and later managed environmental compliance for an electric utility. As a Florida State University Visiting Professor, conference speaker, and provider of public and private skills training seminars he has trained thousands of lobbyists. 
 
He holds degrees in political science, civil engineering, and law - all from the University of Florida - and is licensed to the practice of law in Florida and the District of Columbia. 

Chris Micheli is an attorney and lobbyist with Aprea & Micheli in Sacramento, California where he regularly testifies before policy and fiscal committees of the California Legislature, as well as a number of administrative agencies, departments, boards, and commissions. Over the last twenty years, he has published hundreds of articles and editorials in professional journals, newspapers, and trade magazines, explaining diverse subjects ranging from tax incentives to transportation funding. He is a graduate of the University of California, Davis with a B.A. in Political Science--Public Service and the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law with a J.D. degree. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at McGeorge where he teaches the course Lawmaking in California.