Obama wins Excessive
Regulations award
Obama Sets Another Record –
Most Regulations in American History! by Joe Scudder 11/18/16
Yesterday,
more pages of Obama regulations were published than ever before. While the news
media has been propagandizing for the President’s apology tour in Europe, the
real story is the number of Obama regulations published in the Federal Register
yesterday.
According to the Washington Examiner, President
Obama has just set a new record for rules and regulations, his
administration spitting out 527 pages worth in just one day, as he races to put
his fingerprint on virtually every corner of American life and business.
According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the administration has just
shattered the old record for pages of regulations and rules published by the
in-house journal, the Federal Register.
At 81,640 total pages for 2016, it ranks
first and 235 pages more than all of those published in 2010, the previous
record.
In fact, Obama regulations hold seven of
the ten top records for most pages of new regulations published in a single
day. It turns out that Rahm Emanuel wrote a
letter to the outgoing administration in 2008, requesting that no new
regulations be published. Now, that same letter was sent to the Obama
Administration.
Western Journalism reports, House
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republican leadership sent a letter Tuesday
asking the Obama administration to put a halt on all the recent rulemaking.
“We write to caution you against
finalizing pending rules or regulations in the Administration’s last
days….Moreover, such forbearance is necessary to afford the recently elected
Administration and Congress the opportunity to review and give direction
concerning pending rulemakings,” the letter states.
It continues: “Should you ignore this
counsel, please be aware that we will work with our colleagues to ensure that
Congress scrutinizes your actions and, if appropriate, overturns them pursuant
to the Congressional Review Act.”
The Obama administration does not want
to honor that request, it seems. The Washington Examiner points out that there
are over twenty working days left in the year.
“No one knows what the future holds, but
at a pace of well over 1,000 pages weekly, the Federal Register could easily
top 90,000 pages this year. The simple algebra says that at the current pace
we’ll add 11,190 pages over the next 44 days, to end 2016 at around 92,830
pages,” said CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews.
“This is astonishing and should be of
great concern, and intolerable, to policymakers. It is remarkable enough that
the all-time record has been passed before Thanksgiving,” he added.
So, all this time Barack Obama has,
while acting painfully patronizing, promised to do all he can to help Donald
Trump make a smooth transition into office, he has worked against him. He has
no intention of making space for Donald Trump. Rather, he is still working hard
to get his own agenda in place. He is adding to Donald Trump’s workload because
he will have to undo all these Obama regulations.
While this is obnoxious, it probably
isn’t going to do that much damage. Barack Obama’s decision not to work with
Congress is going to prove costly to his legacy. What can be done by executive
order can be undone by executive order. As I wrote a few days ago, Trump gets Obama’s pen and Obama’s phone
after his inauguration.
Hopefully he’ll use scissors too. Or
perhaps he should hold a White House bonfire using volumes of the Federal
Register as fuel.
http://constitution.com/obama-sets-another-record-regulations-american-history/
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