OIRA Speeches

• Regulation and Oversight: Advice for the New Administration (Given before the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research) (December 10, 2008)
  
  
• The Future of Federal Rulemaking: Federal Docket Management System and Beyond (Given before the American Bar Association Fall 2008 Administrative Law Conference) (October 17, 2008)
  
  
• Supporting Transatlantic Trade: Standards and Conformance for Business and Regulators (before the U.S. Chamber Global Regulatory Cooperation Project) (September 24, 2008)
  
  
• Update on the EU-US Regulatory Cooperation Forum (Given in Brussels) (April 24, 2008)
  
  
• Celebration of the 5th Anniversary of Regulations.gov (Given before the Environmental Protection Agency) (January 22, 2008)
  
  
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Regulations: Lessons Learned, Future Challenges (Given before the The Searle Center, Northwestern University School of Law) (October 11, 2007)
  
  
• Going Beyond the Border: The Impact of Domestic Regulation on Global Markets (Given before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) (July 17, 2007)
  
  
• "Science and Regulatory Policy at OMB" (Slide presentation given before the Society of Toxicology, 44th Annual Meeting, New Orleans) (March 7, 2005) (467k)
  
  
• "Risk, Science, and Public Policy: Setting Social and Environmental Priorities" (Given before the Brookings-AEI Conference) (October 12, 2004) HTML or PDF (27k)
  
  
• "Risk Management in a Complex World: The Fourth Transatlantic Dialogue on Precaution" (Given before the R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center, Duke University) (September 19, 2004) HTML or PDF (27k)
  
  
• "Information Quality and Precaution" (Given before the Toxicology Forum) (February 3, 2004) HTML or PDF (53k)

• "Office of Management and Budget Proposed Bulletin on Peer Review and Information Quality" (slide presentation given at the National Academies Workshop on the proposed bulletin) (November 18, 2003) (354k)
  
  
• "Smarter Regulation: Progress and Unfinished Business" (Given before the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice) (November 6, 2003) HTML or PDF (34k)
  
  
• "The Perils of the Precautionary Principle: Lessons from the American and European Experience" (Given before the Heritage Foundation) (October 20, 2003) HTML or PDF (35k)
  
  
• "Information Quality: An Update on the First Year" (Given before the American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, 11^th Section Fall Meeting) (October 8, 2003) HTML or PDF (124k)
  
  
• "Reigning in the Regulatory State: The Smart-Regulation Agenda" (Given before the CATO Institute, Hill Briefing) (October 3, 2003) HTML or PDF (115k)
  
  
• "Smarter Regulation - Progress and Unfinished Business" (Given before the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) (September 25, 2003)
  
  
• "Valuing Health: An OMB Perspective" (Given before the Conference on Valuing Health Outcomes: An Assessment of Approaches) (February 13, 2003) (36k)
  
  
• "Risk, Precaution, and Regulation" (Given before the Society for Risk Analysis) (December 9, 2002) (99k)
  
  
• Regulation and the Economy (Given before the Washington Research Group's 33^rd Annual Symposium) (November 7, 2002) (54k)
  
  
• Presidential Oversight of the Regulatory State: Can It Work? (Given before the Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University) (October 4, 2002)
  
  
• Stimulating Smarter Regulation: OMB's Role (Given before the American Hospital Association) (July 17, 2002)
  
  
• The Role of Precaution in Risk Management (Given before the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology Precautionary Principle Workshop) (June 20, 2002)
  
  
• Remarks to the Board of Trustees, The Keystone Center (June 18, 2002)
  
  
• "Cost-Effectiveness in Health Policy" (Given before the ISPOR 7th Annual International Meeting During the Second Plenary Session, "The Rise of Risk Management") (May 21, 2002) (101k)
  
  
• Presidential Management of the Regulatory State (Given before the Society of Automotive Engineers Government/Industry) (May 14, 2002)
  
  
• Presidential Management of the Regulatory State (Given before the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Workshop) (May 13, 2002)
  
  
• Ensuring Information Quality: Challenges and Opportunities (Given before the Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences) (May 10, 2002)
  
  
• Stimulating Smarter Regulation: OMB's Role (Given before the Organization Resources Counselors, Inc. (ORC) Occupational Safety and Health Group) (May 8, 2002)
  
  
• Stimulating Smarter Regulation: OMB's Role (Given before the Council of Scientific Society Presidents) (May 6, 2002)
  
  
• Stimulating Smarter Regulation: OMB's Role (Given before a Policy Symposium organized by North Carolina State University) (May 3, 2002)
  
  
• Regulatory Health Protection: Analytical Challenges (Given before the Resources for the Future Conference) (April 19, 2002)
  
  
• OMB’S Role in Overseeing Information Quality (Remarks to Public Workshop on Information-Quality Guidelines, Sponsored by Committee on Data Quality, Science, Technology and Law Program, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC) (March 21, 2002) (18k)
  
  
• Presidential Management of the Regulatory State (Given before the National Economists Club) (March 7, 2002)
  
  
• Presidential Management of Regulatory Policy: A Stronger Role for Science, Engineering, and Economics (Given before the National Academy of Engineering) (February 20, 2002) (77k)
  
  
• An Overview of the U.S. Regulatory System (Given before the Conference on Regulatory Reform Sponsored by the European Policy Centre, Brussels, Belgium) (January 15, 2002)
  
  
• The Role of Precaution in Risk Assessment and Management: An American's View (Given before the U.S. Mission to the European Union, the European Commission and the German Marshall Fund) (January 11-12, 2002)
  
  
• Presidential Management of the Regulatory State (Given before the Weidenbaum Center Forum) (December 17, 2001)