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UPDATE:

The White House decided to give Dudley a recess appointment. Click here to send a message to Congress that this is unacceptable... Congress must start investigations to make sure Dudley isn't putting us all at risk. The air we breathe depends on it!

Tell the White House

that Susan Dudley is a rotten egg:
"NO RECESS APPOINTMENT FOR SUSAN DUDLEY"

The Senate is out for Easter recess now. Which means the White House might be planning to hide a rotten egg - by giving out a recess appointment to a stinker like Susan Dudley.

Dudley spent her career arguing that if we truly valued protections like air bags or privacy rights, then corporations would already be giving them to us... so there's no need for any regulation to protect us.

Bush nominated her to an office where she would have power to weaken and eliminate all those pesky regulations, like air bags and privacy rights, that Dudley thinks we don't really need.

Your calls and letters to the Senate last year were successful: the Susan Dudley nomination wasn't even allowed to leave the committee. And the Republican Senator who chaired that committee last year actually told the press that while the president could always send the nomination back in 2007... but it would just be a waste of time.

So did Bush learn his lesson? Nope. Bush is at it again in 2007 -- nominating, once again, Susan Dudley to become the regulatory czar.

But even that wasn't enough: while the Senate is looking again at her nomination, Bush decided to put her in power through the backdoor, by making her a "senior advisor," so that she can go ahead and do the job that the Senate decided last year she shouldn't be allowed to do.

Tell the Bush Administration, "Do NOT appoint Susan Dudley during the Senate recess!"

UPDATE: On April 4, President Bush announced that he was ignoring the public's many concerns and gave Dudley a recess appointment. Instead of using the letter below to the White House, please click here to send a message to Congress that you think the recess appointment is an outrage.

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November 21, 2009

Subject:

Dear Mr. President:

I am calling on you to make good on your promise of working with the new Congress by not skipping over the Senate and its vital role of advice and consent by simply giving Susan Dudley a recess appointment to the role of administrator of the OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Dudley is wrong for OIRA for three main reasons: -- her ideological opposition to regulation, -- her support for radical policies that would impair public safeguards, and -- her ties to industry. Throughout her career, Dudley has consistently fought against government safeguards and advocated a radical, hands-off approach to regulating corporations. There has never been a worse candidate for this position. The members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs understood how wrong she was for the position and did not move her nomination through the committee. It's time for a new nominee, one who does not have an agenda to dismantle the public's protections. After Election Day, you expressed a conciliatory tone and promised to work with the new Congress. Please make good on that promise: do not force your will on Congress and the American people by giving her a recess appointment. The cost is too high.
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