The GOP's Race to Repeal

The media coverage of the GOP's race to repeal important safeguards has been fairly slight, with the press distracted on the substantive side by the president's executive order signing ceremonies and by the train wreck of an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and on the flashy news side by the various scandals and Keystone Cops displays emanating from the White House. But the rules being targeted under the Congressional Review Act are consequential, and they tell us whose interests the congressional majority and the president are working to protect.