OIRA review
The White House review that most significant draft rules must clear before an agency may publish them.
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs sits inside the Office of Management and Budget and reviews significant draft rules before they are published. Its remit covers the analysis behind a rule and its consistency with the administration's priorities, and its practical power is the schedule: a rule under review is a rule that has not been issued.
The review is unusually visible for an internal process. The office publishes what it currently has, how long each draft has been pending, and the meetings it holds with outside parties about pending rules. A draft that has sat under review well past the nominal ninety days is a signal worth reading, and so is a sudden cluster of outside meetings about one document.
For a reader tracking a rulemaking, this is the stage between an agency finishing a rule and the public seeing it. A rule listed in the Unified Agenda and then appearing at review is much closer to publication in the Federal Register than one that is merely planned.
What the federal government did, once a day.
One email each weekday: the rules, filings, votes and Fed decisions that actually changed something, each one linked to the document it came from.