This is the Kato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, April 30, 2008. I'm Caleb Brown.

We're now solidly in the last year of the Bush presidency, so just how do presidents, and the agencies under their control

changed their regulatory behavior when time is short.

Erronique de Rugee, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and the Cato Institute adjunct scholar

says that sense of urgency and agencies in the White House

means regulations that might not be properly vetted.

A president or an agency issue regulation and it goes, usually it goes through Congress,

who looks at it, but also it goes through Congress who looks at it but also it goes through an oversight process

where supposedly the cost and benefit of the regulation are measured and then there's a bunch

of steps for it to be approved and then it goes to the to the federal

registers printer and it gets printed and that's when it becomes official.

So what changes about the way presidents choose to,

or agencies choose to issue regulations

toward the end of a president's term?

Well, the only thing that actually changes is I think there is a sense of urgency

that everyone has, whether it's the administration or the end of agencies,

and also the body that is supposed to do the other side that the time is running out

so they have to do things much faster and they tend to actually push things out the door with much less oversight

and faster than they would otherwise.

The other thing that's happening is because there is an outburst of regulatory activity.

There's much, much more regulations going through the pipeline.

The amount that the oversight body has to go through or has to do is just it's

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