Both the Senate Appropriations Committee and the House of Representatives have defied a White House veto threat and voted to save overtime rights for millions of workers. Full story.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a proposed rule Sept. 16 for requiring tire pressure monitoring systems. The ruling came a full year after its first attempt at a rule was overturned by a federal court, and two months after Public Citizen returned to that same court seeking an order compelling NHTSA to stop delaying and issue a rule.

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee blasted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week for urging drug companies to withhold information on the efficacy of antidepressants used on children. The controversy comes just as patient advocacy groups, the American Medical Association, and a dozen medical journal editors are calling on pharmaceutical companies to register their clinical trials in order to meet increasing public demand for information on the effectiveness and safety of drugs. Lack of Information on Clinical Trials Leads to Use of Ineffective Drugs

OMB Watch's new report, The Bush Regulatory Record: A Pattern of Failure, analyzes the last year of federal regulatory activity for four key agencies charged with serving the public interest and places its findings in a broader four-year context. The agencies studied are the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).