Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

WATCH: Administration Official's Announcement At AEI Gets Panned

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Video, 112th Congress, Regulation, Oira, Regulatory Review, Wall Street Journal, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- White House regulatory czar Cass Sunstein rolled out the results of the administration's four-month-long regulatory review Thursday morn...

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Thirty Years of Regulatory Review

Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Regulation, Oira, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Ronald Reagan, Osha, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Epa, Business News

Thirty years ago, President Reagan put cost-benefit analysis at the heart of how agencies like the EPA and OSHA do business and initiated one of the m...

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Coal Lobbyist Grinches Stole 2010, Obama Transparency Initiative Falters

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Office of Management and Budget, Epa, Coal Ash, Mercury Emissions, Pollution, TVA Disaster, K Street, Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Coal Lobby, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Green News

Climate and energy legislation is dead, coal ash regulations are delayed indefinitely, mountaintop removal mining continues, and the myth of "clean coal" is alive and well thanks to continuing praise by Obama and Biden.

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A Year of Regulatory Disasters

Rena Steinzor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regulation, Jacob Lew, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Green News

The pattern is clear for anyone who is looking. The systemic regulatory failures of the past year are signs of government and specifically federal agencies not able to accomplish their missions of protecting the public.

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Scrutinizing Inaction

Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Tennessee Coal Ash, Office of Management and Budget, Environment, Jacob Lew, Regulation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Green News

With the announcement earlier this week that President Obama will nominate Jacob Lew to replace Peter Orszag at the Office of Management and Budget (O...

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Just How Corrupt are the Bank Regulators?

Garrett Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Bank Regulation, Fdic, Deregulation, Regulatory Reform, Banks, Regulation, Financial Regulation, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Business News

Can we really expect the FDIC to effectively regulate the banks that have loaned them money so that they can do their job?

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Cloture Passes On Cass Sunstein, 63-35

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Blanche Lincoln, Cloture, Robert Bennett, Olympia Snowe, Orrin Hatch, Filibuster, Judd Gregg, Glen Beck, Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama, James Webb, Richard Lugar, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...

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Cass Sunstein Attacks Frustrate Conservative Fans

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Cornyn, White House, Van Jones, Ed Morrissey, President Obama, Harry Reid, Saxby Chambliss, Glen Beck, Czars, Eric Cantor, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

...The campaign against Sunstein has largely written itself. One of the most regularly cited legal scholars, the author, co-author, or editor of dozen...

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Putting a Hold on Compassion

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saxby Chambliss, Animals, Cass Sunstein, Confirmation Hearings, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Agriculture, Politics News

Politicians should consider a compassionate concern for animals to be a personal and even political asset for candidates for major executive offices.

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Sunstein's Past Record Of Lax Regulation

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: OIRA, Obama Appointments, Office of Management and Budget, Obama Appointees, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

How would progressives respond if President Bush nominated as "regulatory czar" a person who: - Once called for changing the Clean Air Act to require...

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Obama Picks Renowned Chicago Legal Scholar As Chief Regulator

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Barack Obama Administration, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

Cass Sunstein, a longtime University of Chicago legal scholar and prominent author, is set to take up a key cause in the Barack Obama administration: ...

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