The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Brian Deese to be deputy director of OMB, Dan Tangherlini as GSA administrator and Howard Shelanski as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Deese is the 35-year-old former deputy director of the National Economic Council, where, according to his White House bio, he was charged with coordinating policy development on several administration economic priorities including tax policy, financial regulation, housing, clean energy, manufacturing, and the automotive industry. He also served as the economic policy director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008 and spent three years at the Center for American Progress an economic policy analyst.
Tangherlini took over the helm at GSA from former administrator Martha Johnson, who resigned in the face of an embarrassing conference spending scandal last year. He began his career as a Presidential Management Fellow at OMB in 1991, and the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Tom Carper, D-Del., credited him for leading a turnaround at GSA via a top-to-bottom review.
Shelanski, the new “regulator czar” at OIRA, has been on leave from his position as a law professor at Georgetown University since last July in order to serve as director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, where he previously served as Deputy Director from 2009-2011.
