In the last two weeks of 2014, the Obama administration churned out so many new final rules, proposed rules, notices documents and presidential directives that the Federal Register was struggling to get them all published. All told, the Competitive Enterprise Institute tabulated 3,541 new rules and regulations issued by Obama during 2014. Congress only passed 129 new laws last year, meaning but Obama’s administration created about 27 new regulations and rules for each law Congress passed. Yep, The Boy Who Would be King trumped Congress in the bureaucratic race to write new regulations. It’s so unbelievable, you may want to go to the Regulations.gov source to see for yourself President Obama’s latest abomination.
The American Action Forum estimated that the regulatory cost for the new edicts would exceed $200 billion, if the Environmental Protection Agency’s coal ash rule and its $20 billion price tag are included. But hold on — we’re not done. Obama also creates more laws behind the scenes, without congressional involvement. Bureaucrats and regulators, not Congress, now dictate most of the nation’s laws. Obama uses and abuses “executive actions” to drum up new laws, bypassing Congress and snubbing the U.S. Constitution’s doctrine of separation of powers. Let’s hope that the new Congress will quash Obama’s abusive use of executive actions and retrieve its rightful constitutional powers.
h/t John P
