Bad Acting
by Guest Blogger, 5/22/2006
We here at REG•WATCH let positive thinking get the better of us. Yes, the White House did name Steven D. Aitken as the acting administrator of OIRA rather than John Morrall. The problem is that we were wrong in thinking John Morrall was going to be the acting administrator; he was named the acting deputy administrator.
So, Aitken is the acting John Graham; Morrall is the acting Don Arbuckle. And, for a day there, in the absence of Arbuckle (deputy admin) serving as acting administrator for Graham, Morrall was in line to be the acting deputy acting as acting administrator.
That said, Morrall is still responsible for this, and this, and this. And that's no act.
