"President Joe Biden has installed legal scholar K. Sabeel Rahman as the political head of the White House regulations office, nearly two years after he first entered office.
Rahman will serve as associate administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The office is little-known outside Washington but wields tremendous power over how federal agencies execute the president’s agenda.
It hasn’t had a permanent leader since Biden took office, making Rahman the top political appointee there.
No president has taken this long to nominate someone to run OIRA since the position began requiring Senate confirmation in the late 1980s, ..."
Courtney Rozen reports for Bloomberg Environment August 31, 2022.
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 09/01/2022
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