How the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the longtime graveyard of regulation in the public interest, became its unlikely champion.
Cass Sunstein
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Biden’s Progressive Appointees: Watch Out Below the Radar
Today on TAP: Who’s staffing the executive branch?
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Red Alert: The Return of Cass Sunstein
Today on TAP: Obama’s OIRA director should not make a comeback under Biden
Posted inCabinet Watch
The Most Important Biden Appointee No One Has Heard Of
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs can determine the scope of the Biden presidency.
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Note to Biden: A President Can Do a Lot Even Without the Senate
What Trump has done inside the administrative state has been more critical than his public persona.
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More Nominees for Biden’s Cabinet
Don’t measure the drapes yet, but personnel really is policy. This is another article in a continuing series on possible Biden appointees.
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The Future of the Regulatory State
A symposium on how to handle regulation in the post-Trump era
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It’s Time for OIRA to Go
No amount of reform can rehabilitate an agency designed to subvert progressive goals.
Posted inDay One Agenda
The Little Agency That Could (Block All Good Regulations)
The Day One agenda is dependent on the functions of OIRA, an obscure federal agency that acts as a bottleneck for agency rules and regulations.