Democrats plan bill to void late Bush regulations

Congressional Democrats are preparing bills to reverse a host of reguations adopted by the Bush administration in its final weeks, apparently including one intended to remove legal and technical obstacles to mountaintop-removal mining of coal. So reports Joaquin Sapien of ProPublica, citing The American Prospect, a liberal magazine.

The Prospect's Tapped blog reports that one of the first 10 Senate bills will be the "Returning Government to the American People Act, to return the government to the people by reviewing controversial 'midnight regulations' issued in the waning days of the Bush administration. Senate Democrats plan "to provide the new administration legislative authority, if it doesn't have it already, to review (and presumably deny) the last administration's late regulations." (Read more)