Posted on 01/05/2017 4:12:43 AM PST by expat_panama
Regulation: As President Obama continues his bizarre last-minute regulatory siege without letup, Donald Trump has made it clear he'll undo most of the unneeded rules once he's in office. And Congress hopes to make it very easy for him to do.
As he heads for the exits, Obama is engaged in a frenzy of regulation, intended to hamstring American businesses and reward green groups and unions. But while the pace has picked up recently, it's really nothing new.
As Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner has noted, Obama's "lame duck administration poured on thousands more new regulations in 2016 at a a rate of 18 for every new law passed," citing a new study by Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Yes, Congress passes many of the laws that make these regulations possible. In 2016, Congress passed 211 laws, which is pretty impressive given that the House was only in session for about 111 days.
Even so, Obama's bureaucracy in 2016 laid on another 3,852 new federal regulations, without any input from Congress...
...these new laws would be a formidable one-two punch against the ever-growing power of the White House and the bureaucracy to make laws without any "small-D" democratic input whatsoever. It would go a long way toward clipping the wings of the increasingly powerful, unelected administrative state that silently governs all our lives and limits our freedoms — to our great detriment.
We hope once Trump takes office on Jan. 20, he and Congress will join to put an end to this regulatory craziness. Congress should give him the tools by passing both these bills and making them law.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Getting rid of most of this Crap is sure going to make Trump look good and make Odumbo look like the Boob he is.
Hey! Boobs are attractive. Zero, not so much. . . ;)
All laws need to have the details that will totally stop the use of regulation as the parasite using it as a base of operations to devour the citizens that the law never intended to do.
Didn’t want to write asshole because moderator would have removed...but that’s what i meant.
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