For Bush Admin Rulemaking, Clock Strikes Midnight
For the last two months, ProPublica has been keeping watch on the final regulatory changes of the Bush administration. Of the 65 rules we listed on our Midnight Regulations chart, 23 have gone into effect; about a third of those have gone live, so to speak, since Sunday. The big question now is what the Obama administration will do about them.
The highly contested "provider conscience" rule from the Department of Health and Human Services, which critics say is an attack on women's reproductive rights, went into effect today. … more…
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Jesse Nankin is a graduate student in journalism at Northeastern University. Before deciding to pursue a career in journalism, she was a paralegal for two years in the Health Care Fraud Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, Mass. She left the legal path for an associate editor position at Houghton Mifflin Co. and then joined the staff at the Harvard School of Public Health where she wrote for the Harvard Public Health Review. Her writing has also appeared in The Boston Globe and Cruising World. Nankin received her bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 2001.
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