President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the White House’s regulatory office possesses a background in environmental law, has written extensively on federal regulations and has drawn support from peers who served under Democratic and Republican administrations.
Richard Revesz, a former dean of New York University’s law school known as Ricky, may also play a prominent role in shepherding the Biden administration’s policy agenda into force if Republicans take control of one or both chambers of Congress in January.
Biden nominated Revesz on Aug. 2 to be administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, or OIRA, part of the White House’s budget office, moving to fill a post that has been without a Senate-confirmed leader for about two years.
