Biden Without Rules Chief Aims to Rethink How Business Competes

Notably absent in President Joe Biden‘s sweeping mandate for a dozen agencies to write more than 70 regulations to crack down on monopolistic practices in agriculture, technology, pharmaceuticals, and other industries is a leader of his own regulations office to shepherd it all.

No president, let alone one as determined as Biden to create change through regulation, has taken this long to nominate someone to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs since the position started requiring Senate confirmation in the late 1980s, according to Senate records. It’s one of the government’s most quietly powerful positions, charged with ...