One of the clues that Obama was not who he professed to be during the campaign was his closeness to Harvard professor Cass Sunstein. When Obama appointed Sunstein to direct the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Center for Progressive Reform illustrated the problem.
CPR – The job is perhaps better known by its informal title: “regulatory czar,” so named because the holder is charged with signing off on all major proposed regulations. In the recent past, the OIRA has been a place where regulations to protect health, safety and the environment go to die, or at the very least be weakened.