Unified Agenda
The semiannual published list of regulations each federal agency expects to work on, with target dates.
The Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions is published twice a year and lists, agency by agency, the rules each expects to propose or finalise, with a stage, a timetable, and a contact. It is the closest thing to a public roadmap of federal regulation.
Its dates should be read as intentions rather than commitments. Target months slip routinely, entries are carried from one edition to the next for years, and a rule can be withdrawn without explanation. What the Agenda reliably shows is direction: which subjects an agency is committing staff to, and which long-pending items have quietly moved to a later stage or vanished.
It is most useful read as a difference. Comparing successive editions shows a proposal newly promoted to final-rule stage, or an item deleted altogether, and both are often news before anything reaches the Federal Register or clears OIRA review.
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.