Biden’s Regulations Lead Wins Support from Two GOP Senators (1)

A key Senate committee approved President Joe Biden‘s choice for White House regulations chief, after two senior Republicans crossed party lines to move his nomination forward.

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted 9-2 Wednesday to send law professor Ricky Revesz’s nomination to the full Senate. Ranking member Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who is retiring, and James Lankford (Okla.) sided with committee Democrats.

Revesz is Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a team that wields tremendous power over how the federal government executes the president’s agenda. The office, known as OIRA, fine-tunes ...