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Cass Sunstein on what law professors don't get about government
Among law professors, "it's long been thought that the process of notice and comment is basically kabuki theater," said Cass Sunstein, himself a law professor for decades before heading up OIRA and who has since returned to academia. "That administrative-law sophisticated wisdom, it couldn't be further from the truth," he said at a Brookings Institution event.
Spotlight: Sunstein to leave OIRA
Cass Sunstein, the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, will step down from his post this month to rejoin Harvard Law School as the Felix Frankfurter professor of law and to direct the school's new program on behavioral economics and public policy.
Spotlight: Regulatory reform paying off, says Sunstein
Efforts to streamline regulations over the last 3 years have resulted in "more than $91 billion in net benefits," according to a May 10 White House blog post from Cass Sunstein,...
White House tells agencies to look abroad when reviewing regulations
Under the May 1 executive order, agencies are required to submit a regulatory plan that summarizes the "international regulatory cooperation activities that are reasonably anticipated to lead to significant regulations."
Agencies begin releasing refreshed open government plans
It’s been 2 years since the president issued the Open Government Directive, a policy that not only required executive departments and agencies to draft open government plans, but to update them...
OIRA: Agencies must clarify, simplify regulations
Agencies are now required to include brief, straightforward executive summaries at the beginning of all complex rules and regulations, says a Jan. 4 memo (.pdf) issued by Cass Sunstein, administrator
OMB: Records management directive coming
A Nov. 28 presidential memorandum unveiled an Office of Management and Budget effort to reform records management, which will culminate in the issuance of a records management directive in summer
OMB offers paperwork reduction guidance on its previous guidance
New guidance from the Office of Management and Budget tells agencies use a "Fast Track Process" to minimize the paperwork that could result from compliance with a previous OMB mandate. The process,
Regulatory review will save agencies more than $1 billion 'in the short run,' reduce paperwork burden
The Office of Management and Budget released for comment May 26 the preliminary plans for 30 agencies to "look back" at regulations that impose an undue compliance burden. White House officials said
Spotlight: Federal agencies reveal plans to review past regulations
Thirty federal agencies and departments have submitted preliminary plans to the Office and Management and Budget, for their internal "look back" at federal regulations. Jack Lew, director of OMB, and
