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There are 191 federal comment windows open right now. Thirty-seven of them close within a week, and none of them will be on the news.
This desk keeps a standing sweep of dated federal commitments. Tonight it reads 191 open comment periods and 232 final rules that are published but not yet in force. Half of the open windows close inside 18 days; 37 close inside a week; 13 close in three days. Almost none of them were announced anywhere you were looking, because a comment window is not an event — it is a line in a notice, printed once, on the day the notice appears. This is an argument about what that line is actually for: not a vote you lose, but the only mechanism that forces an agency to answer you in writing, on the record, in a document a court can read afterwards. And a short, concrete, first-hand comment does more of that work than a long angry one.
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