July 12, 2006
Washington Post

I Am OMB and I Write the Rules

By Al Kamen

Worried enviros say the Bush administration is about ready to announce its pick
to head the Office of Management and Budget's powerful regulatory office and
the front-runner is Susan Dudley, director of the regulatory studies program
at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.

Dudley would head the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which
approves all environmental, health and safety and other government regulations.

Dudley, who has worked at the OMB and at the Environmental Protection Agency,
would succeed John D. Graham, the cost-benefit champion who left in October.
Graham also served as an adviser to Mercatus, the staunchly anti-regulatory
center funded largely by Koch Industries Inc., the oil and gas company and
mega-GOP contributor. Charles G. Koch and another top Koch official serve on
the nine-member Mercatus board of directors.

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