Appendix: Steering Committee Membership

Below are the Steering Committee members for the Advancing the Public Interest Through Regulatory Reform project as of November 2008.* Affiliations are for identification purposes only and do not indicate involvement or an endorsement of the project recommendations by the organizations.

Gary D. Bass
Executive Director
OMB Watch

Michael Bird
Senior Federal Affairs Counsel
National Conference of State Legislatures

Caroline Smith DeWaal
Director, Food Safety Program
Center for Science in the Public Interest

N. Bruce Duthu
Professor of Native American Studies
Dartmouth College

David J. Goldston
former Chief of Staff
U.S. House Committee on Science

Mark Greenwood
Partner
Ropes & Gray

Francesca Grifo
Senior Scientist and Director of Scientific Integrity Program
Union of Concerned Scientists

John Irons
Research and Policy Director
Economic Policy Institute

Edwin S. Jayne
Associate Director of Legislation American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees

Sylvia Johnson
Legislative Representative
United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)

David Michaels
Research Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

Richard W. Parker
Professor of Law
University of Connecticut School of Law

Beryl Radin
Scholar in Residence
School of Public Affairs
American University

Reece Rushing
Director, Regulatory and Information Policy
Center for American Progress

J. Robert Shull
Program Officer
Public Welfare Foundation

Peter L. Strauss
Betts Professor of Law
Columbia Law School

Wesley Warren
Director of Programs
Natural Resources Defense Council

* We also benefited greatly from the contributions of John Arensmeyer of the Small Business Majority, Rena Steinzor of the University of Maryland School of Law, and Mike Wright of the United Steelworkers, who left the Steering Committee before the report was finalized. Ed Jayne joined the project in mid-2008.