White House Appoints Conservative Scholar To Regulatory Post

WHITE HOUSE APPOINTS CONSERVATIVE SCHOLAR TO REGULATORY POST
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Bob Davis bob.davis@wsj.com ]
The White House named Susan Dudley, a conservative regulatory scholar, to oversee regulatory review, a little known but powerful post at the Office of Management and Budget. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs reviews major agency regulations with an eye toward reducing compliance costs, and according to critics, easing burdens on companies. It takes an especially active role in overseeing proposals involving environmental, transportation and labor issues. In the first Bush administration, the agency operated in secrecy and was widely seen as a way to make end-runs around agencies. In the current Bush White House, the agency operates with a great deal more transparency, though it retains a very conservative tilt. In the early Bush years, for instance, the agency sought suggestions for government regulations to kill or modify.
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* White House press release: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060731-7.html