Over the last few years, the FCC has become increasingly untethered, drawing unwelcome scrutiny of its legal obligations as an independentregulatoryagency, immune to political pressure from the White House or interest groups.
We, the United States of America, have an independentregulatoryagency whose sole mission is to constantly review and evaluate the safety and security of the reactors in the United States, which provide 20 percent of the electricity that Americans consume.
At the Council's urging, the Administration has started a regulatory look-back, directing every agency including independent agencies, to determine how they can make their regulations more friendly to small business and more streamlined.