SUSAN DUDLEY

'Susan E. Dudley' (born May 27, 1955), an American academic and a political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush. Dudley was appointed by Bush in April, 2007, via a recess appointment to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget. This makes Dudley the top regulatory official at the White House.
The President first nominated Susan E. Dudley to serve as the OIRA Administrator on July 31, 2006. The Senate Governmental Affairs and Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on Ms. Dudley’s nomination on November 13, but did not vote to confirm her. Bush re-nominated on January 9, 2007 and appointed her to serve as a senior advisor at OIRA on January 30, 2007.

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Personal

Career

Controversies

Links

Personal

Dudley was born in Massachusetts.
Dudley is married to Brian F. Mannix, an economist who is a political appointee at the Environmental Protection Agency, serving as Associate Administrator for Policy, Economics, and Innovation.

Career

Dudley directed the Regulatory Studies Program of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University from 2003 until 2006.

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.

Links

★ 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

★ An environmental assessment by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for land in Gainesville, Virginia, owned by Dudley and her husband Brian F. Mannix

★ 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.