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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 1/11/2009

How Anti-Regulation Is Obama’s New Regulatory Czar?

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Our guest blogger is Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch . Cass Sunstein How would progressives respond if President Bush nominated as “regulatory czar” a person who: – Once called for changing the Clean Air Act to require a balancing of costs and ...

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