Susan Dudley
Susan Dudley | |
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| Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs | |
| In office April 4, 2007 – January 20, 2009 | |
| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Steve Aiken (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Neyland (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Susan Elaine Dudley May 27, 1955 ) |
Susan Elaine Dudley (born May 27, 1955) is an American academic who served as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget in the administration of George W. Bush. As such, Dudley was the top regulatory official at the White House.
Early life
Dudley was born in Massachusetts. Dudley is married to Brian F. Mannix, an economist who also was a political appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency, serving as Associate Administrator for Policy, Economics, and Innovation from September 18, 2005, until January 20, 2009.
Career
Currently, Dudley is a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the
President Bush first nominated Dudley to serve as the OIRA Administrator on July 31, 2006. The Senate Governmental Affairs and Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on Dudley’s nomination on November 13, but did not hold a vote to confirm her. Bush re-nominated Dudley on January 9, 2007; appointed her to serve as a senior advisor at OIRA on January 30, 2007; and gave her a recess appointment as OIRA Administrator on April 4, 2007. On January 6, 2009, the recess appointment expired and Bush designated Dudley as Acting Administrator of OIRA until his term of office ended on January 20, 2009.
From 1998 through January 2007, Dudley worked at the non-profit
Dudley has authored more than 25 publications on regulatory matters, including
Dudley holds a
Controversies
Dudley has been termed a conservative academic and her work at the Mercatus ("Market," in Latin) Center generally promoted market solutions over government regulation. She argued, for example, that consumers should be able to choose the efficiency of their household appliances, rather than have the government set energy efficiency standards. She also famously argued against an EPA effort to reduce surface ozone stating that the EPA's proposal would lead to significantly more skin cancers and cataracts.[3]
On July 11, 2008, Dudley publicly objected to EPA's analysis of various ways to control
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Susan e. Dudley".
- ^ "Regulatory Studies Center". www.gwu.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-03-02.
- ^ Ozone NAAQS Comments: Comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed National Ambient Air Quality Standard , Susan E. Dudley, March 12, 1997, p. 4/ES-1, retrieved December 22, 2013
External links
- George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.
- Public Citizen and OMB Watch report on Dudley background and nomination: "The Cost Is Too High: How Susan Dudley Threatens Public Protections"
- White House Fact Sheet on Dudley
- Letter of congratulations to Dudley from the National Association of Manufacturers
- The Dudley-Mannix household's donation of $1,000.00 to Bush-Cheney '04 at fundrace.org
- James L. Gattuso, Who Will Regulate the Regulators? The Battle Over Susan Dudley and OIRA, Heritage Foundation Webmemo #1250, Nov. 9, 2006.
- EPA Notice on Greenhouse Gases, including Dudley's objections. (5.8MB pdf)
- Supreme Court ruling 05-1120
- Presidential Nomination: Susan Elaine Dudley
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