Obama Regulatory Czar Backs Off Call for Gov't to Attach Lower Value to Older People
Friday, June 03, 2011
By Fred Lucas



Cass Sunstein

Cass Sunstein, director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management in Budget, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 16, 2011. (AP photo)

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama’s regulatory czar has retreated from a 2003 academic report in which he advocated that the government assign a higher monetary value to the lives of young people than to senior citizens.

Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, on Friday testified in front of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations about the Obama administration’s plans for reviewing and reducing federal regulations.

“I’m a lot older now than the author with my name was, and I’m not sure what I think about what that young man wrote,â€