Sunstein To Overhaul Regulations.gov
President Obama's pick to run the Office of Management and Budget's administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Tuesday that Regulations.gov, the government's e-rulemaking hub, requires a major redesign. "It just isn't as accessible as it ought to be to citizens. That's where I would start," Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein said at his confirmation hearing. Obama's CIO Vivek Kundra told an audience recently that his team is working with OIRA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to retool the Web site after a high-level American Bar Association task force slammed the site. In soliciting public comment on potential regulations, Sunstein said, "simplicity, clarity, and publicity should be watchwords." He also told the committee that OIRA is looking to hire a person whose full-time responsibility at the agency would be ensuring privacy protections. -- Carrie Dann
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