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Friday, August 25, 2006

Bill Berkowitz: Dudley Do-Wrong
In a column for WorkingForChange, Bill Berkowitz compiles a pretty damning case against Susan Dudley. Berkowitz interviews a variety of advocates for public health, safety and the environment, all of whom express deep concerns about the nomination:

"If Dudley is confirmed by the Senate, she will further strip them of their ability to stand up to government secrecy, politicization and corporate interests," said Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook. "Throughout her career, Dudley has consistently fought against government safeguards and advocated a radical, hands-off approach.
"Dudley would be the most anti-regulatory zealot within the Bush Administration, bar none," Scott Silver, the executive director of Wild Wilderness told me in an e-mail exchange. "Her ideology is based upon a core belief that regulations are generally bad and there should be no regulation unless it can be proven to be cost effective and supported from within the market place."

Visit Dudley Watch and find out more about Bush's radical nominee.

Posted by Genevieve Smith, 10:35:39 AM

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Dudley: The Missing Docs
Well, it didn't take too long at all -- the Mercatus Center has silently restored the documents OMB Watch identified as missing from Susan Dudley's profile page.

Now you can read for yourself why she hates the Davis-Bacon Act, thinks that giving the public a right to know about the toxic hazards it is exposed to should be eliminated or weakened in the name of fighting terrorism, and believes that improving standards for arsenic in the drinking water is an unwelcome distraction from the task of protecting the water supply. That, and more.

Posted by Robert Shull, 12:40:28 PM

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Keep Your Eye on Dudley
... with DudleyWatch, your home for analysis, background, news, and more about the White House's decision to nominate industry-backed extremist Susan Dudley to the chief regulatory policy job in the White House.

Posted by Robert Shull, 08:56:38 PM

Sunday, August 06, 2006

How Important is This Dudley Nomination?
It's an obscure office that most people have never heard of, but the post of administrator of the White House OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs wields enormous power over regulatory policy. Susan Dudley promises to be ten times worse in that job than her predecessor, John Graham.

So how bad is that? Take a look back at Graham's tenure with The Graham Files.

Posted by Robert Shull, 07:41:44 PM

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Industry-Backed Radical Named as White House Reg Czar
OMB Watch and other public interest groups have been following rumprs for the last several months that the White House intended to nominate industry-funded extremist Susan Dudley, currently housed at anti-regulatory think tank the Mercatus Center, to become the White House reg czar. The White House just made it official.

Click here for a statement from OMB Watch, and here for commentary from Public Citizen.

Meanwhile, here is PR Watch's take, under the headline Free-Market Fox Nominated to Henhouse Post:

Susan E. Dudley, the "Regulatory Studies Director" at the anti-regulatory think tank the Mercatus Center and a self-proclaimed "free-market environmentalist," has been nominated by the White House to "a little known but powerful post at the Office of Management and Budget." If confirmed by the Senate, Dudley will head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which "reviews major agency regulations with an eye toward reducing compliance costs, and according to critics, easing burdens on companies." Dudley and Mercatus have been "very active" on OIRA issues, notes the Wall Street Journal. "Ultimately, 14 of the 23 rules the White House chose for its 2001 'hit list' were Mercatus entries."
Website: Wall Street Journal (sub req'd), August 1, 2006

[Via Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch]

Stay tuned for more as Dudley's nomination advances.

Posted by Robert Shull, 05:26:47 PM

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