White House office to delete its FOIA regulations

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87. My position on what specifically?

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On whether rules struck down as invalid should be removed from deleted from the code of federal regulations or (in the case of statutes)from the US Code? I was all for it. So when the Bush administration's FCC adopted a rule that raised the number of local tv stations that a single entity could own in a market and Media Access Project got it thrown out by the courts, I was all for the FCC deleting the invalidated rule from the books and restoring the old rule.

And by the same token, I was pissed when the Bush administration left rules on the books after the courts struck them down. For example, a Bush-era rule called the "Broadcast flag" would have made it harder for consumers to record tv shows. It was invalidated by the courts in 2005 because it was inconsistent with the FCC's statutory authority. But it wasn't until 2011 when the Obama administration took the step of having the rule deleted from the code of federal regulations.

So, there, you have my position. Now, on the examples I gave you, what is your view. Should these old, invalid rules have been left on the books to mislead people?