Abstract
The Administrative Procedure Act (" APA") was passed in 1946 and enshrined in law the modern administrative state. It was passed in reaction to the growth of executive-branch policymaking and was the result of countervailing impulses both to rein in administrative agencies and to cement their place in American governance. The statute's chief accomplishments-the creation of informal rulemaking for writing regulations, due-process protections for formal agency adjudication, and set standards for all administrative actions-make it one of the most important (yet least heralded) statutes of the twentieth century. The same cannot be said of many of the statutes that have attempted to reform the regulatory process created by the APA. These statutes have come in two waves, and we may be about to experience a third wave.