Jim Tozzi

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Jim Tozzi is an American lobbyist, currently the head of the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, an industry-supported, for-profit lobbying organization that describes itself as a "regulatory watchdog." Formerly, he was a regulatory official of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). His partner for many years was Thorne G. Auchter and they ran two main lobbying organisations, Federal Focus and Multinational Business Services.

These two lobbying operations worked for both the chemical and the tobacco industries for many years. Philip Morris renewed their request for a tax-free gift of $200,000 each year.

Career

Tozzi was instrumental in the passage of the Paperwork Reduction Act and the establishment of the OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in 1980. Under his directorship, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs was the gatekeeper for virtually all proposed regulations dealing with public health and safety.

Tozzi was the Deputy Administrator of OMB in charge of the OIRA (and therefore of the regulatory agencies) when he left the organization in 1983 at age 45.

Tozzi's role in the DQA was analyzed as a case study in policy entrepreneurship in a National Science Foundation-funded study, "Lobbying and Policymaking: The Public Pursuit of Private Interests", by R. Kenneth Godwin, Scott Ainsworth and Erik K. Godwin. The article "Policy Entrepreneurs: The Power of Audacity" published by RegBlog, an online publication of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, discussed Tozzi's work on both the PRA and the DQA as examples of policy entrepreneurship.

In 1980, it was discovered that there was a link between the intake of aspirin and the occurrence of Reye's syndrome in small children. Tozzi's lobby work delayed the issuing of warning labels on aspirin packages by some five years, after which the number of Reye's-related deaths dropped considerably.

Personal life

Tozzi resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his main office in Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. He is currently working on many projects, including nationwide medical marijuana legalization.

References

References

  1. (November 11, 2002). "Jim Tozzi". Federal Times.
  2. "Paralysis by Analysis". [[Washington Monthly]].
  3. "OMB Regulatory Officials".
  4. "Industry Documents Library".
  5. "Industry Documents Library".
  6. Olson, Erik. "The Quiet Shift of Power".
  7. Behr, Peter. "If there is a new rule, Jim Tozzi has read it". Washington Post.
  8. (May 1982). "Profile".
  9. Kirschten, Dick. (June 11, 1983). "Focus: The 20 Years War". The National Journal.
  10. "Lobbying and Policymaking - SAGE Publications Inc".
  11. Review, The Regulatory. (21 May 2013). "Policy Entrepreneurs: The Power of Audacity - The Regulatory Review".
  12. See chapter 40 in https://www.theparrotandtheigloo.com/
  13. Bailey, Eric. (18 July 2005). "Activist Enlists Unlikely Ally in Bid to Legalize Pot". [[Los Angeles Times]].

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