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Obama Taps "Regulation Czar"
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Legal scholar Cass Sunstein, a former colleague, is expected to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Obama has promised a ...

Sunstein to the White House
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The Trib (a must-read today) reports that Cass Sunstein, an old University of Chicago friend and advisor and prolific legal scholar, will head -- and raise the profile of  -- a low-profile White House office. ...

Cass Sunstein to OIR
Matthew Yglesias — More appointments: The president-elect is expected to name [Cass] Sunstein—his friend and informal adviser—to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a transition official said late Wednesday. A low-profile position in the current administration, the job is likely to be a higher-wattage one after Obama takes office this month. Sunstein seems like an unusually high-wattage person for this somewhat obscure job, further reenforcing the extent to which Obama is assembling a real team of all-stars where you ...

Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... will be the next White House director of counterterrorism. * Cass Sunstein , a long-time legal scholar and Obama confidant, will head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. * ...

Progressive Think Tank Not So Thrilled With Obama's Regulatory Chief
TPM Election Central — The L.A. Times had a nice preview on this today, but the Center for Progressive Reform has just come out with a comprehensive report casting doubt on the regulatory record of Cass Sunstein, the president's pick to head the office in charge of government regulatory efforts. According to the CPR, Sunstein, a longtime friend of Obama's, has supported the use of "cost-benefit analysis" in evaluating proposed regulations -- a method that assigns monetary values to various risks in an attempt to determine the worthiness of a new rule. ...