Boehner rips the Obama administration’s 4,257 new regulations

This morning I wrote about the White House dropping a few dumb regulations and then adding another lamebrained one a couple of days later.

But take a look at the other new ones, which, to be fair, predate the dumping the dumb ones. Speaker of the House John Boehner wrote a letter to the White House, the Tatler blog tells us, seeking information on the Obama red tape.

That 4,257 in the headline looks like a made-up number but, it isn't. It is the actual number of new regulatory actions underway at the moment. The number comes from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs web site. Speaker Boehner's letter requesting information about these 4,257 regulatory actions comes as the Obama administration is publicly claiming that it is cutting red tape to save Americans money and reduce the government’s footprint. That claim does not square up very well with the fact that the administration has 4,257 new regulatory actions in the works. And of that staggering number, more than 200 may have an impact of $100 million or more.

Regulations are up 15 percent from last year.

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