GOP Blasts Biden’s Regulatory Approaches At Hearing For OIRA Nominee

Richard Revesz, the Biden administration’s nominee to run the White House regulatory review office, drew little direct opposition from Republican lawmakers at his Senate nomination hearing, even as several GOP senators expressed significant concern over the administration’s approach to environmental and other regulations. At the Sept. 29 hearing of the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, Revesz stressed that he would focus on transparency as well as even-handed cost-benefit analyses of agency rulemakings should he be confirmed as administrator of...