Weiler: GOP’s Regulatory Nonsense
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 30th, 2011 5:51 am by HL
Weiler: GOP’s Regulatory Nonsense
Jonathan Weiler: A persistent GOP line of attack against President Obama is that he [has] inflicted an intolerable “regulatory burden” on American businesses. Mitt Romney, for instance, has been telling campaign crowds that the Obama administration has issued four times as much regulation as past presidents. This claim is false. According to Bloomberg news, the Obama administration has issued 613 new federal rules so far in his presidency. During the same period in the presidency of George W. Bush, his administration had issued 643 new rules.