Thursday, April 26, 2007

More on the breakdown of the Negotiated Rulemaking sessions

We just got some tips that provided a little more insight into the dissentegration of the student lending negotiated rulemaking.

Yes, it was apparently fairly contentious, but we're being told that progress was being made. And it appeared that consensus was close to being achieved. It was the Department of Education that canceled the last 3 1/2 hours of the session and declared a draw!

No insight into why the Department took this action. But we can surmise that the Department wasn't looking for consensus and thus forced to take direction that they didn't necessarily agree with. Just a stab there.

Interesting stuff.

No comments: