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166 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 1 (2017)

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ESSAY


              THE   ONE-IN, TWO-OUT EXECUTIVE
                         ORDER IS A ZERO



            CAROLINE CECOT & MICHAEL A. LIVERMOREt


    On January 30, 2017, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order
13,771, which directs each agency to repeal at least two existing regulations
before  issuing a new   regulation (referred to  as the  one-in-two-out
requirement)  and  imposes  a regulatory budget  that sets a cap on  total
incremental regulatory costs (set at zero for fiscal year 2017).1 The regulatory
budget concept has been kicked around for decades, while the one-in-two-out
requirement is more recent and has been implemented in Canada, the United
Kingdom,  and Australia to various extents.2 Legal scholars and commentators
have been quick to opine on the Order, with some pointing out ways in which


    t Caroline Cecot is Affiliate Faculty at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.
Michael A. Livermore is Associate Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law. We
thank Richard Revesz and Jason Schwartz for their comments and Sara Savarani for excellent
research assistance.
   1 Exec. Order No. 13,771, 82 Fed. Reg. 9,339 (Feb. 3, 2017).
   2 We discuss these requirements in Parts L.A and IV.


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