Obama’s Nominee for Safety Agency Would Ensure Pro-Regulatory Majority
President Obama’s choice of a Michigan trial lawyer to serve on the Consumer Product Safety Commission would shift the balance of power at the agency and ensure a pro-regulatory majority through most...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Obama’s New Regulations Cost Billions
If you fly across the country, it’s easy to see signs of America’s ingenuity and productivity — skyscrapers in New York City, steel mills in Pennsylvania, factories in Chicago, farmland in the Great...
View ArticlePODCAST: Red Tape Rising
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, expert James Gattuso discusses the punishing increase in government regulations in 2011. Click here to listen. How far above trend was last year’s increase in the...
View ArticleOnline Chat on Regulations
The Heritage Foundation recently released a paper titled Red Tape Rising: Obama-Era Regulation at the Three-Year Mark. The paper talks about the regulations that the Obama Administration has put in...
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Chart of the Week: Obama Tops Bush With More, Costlier Major Regulations
President Obama famously declared in this year’s State of the Union: “I’ve approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his.” Heritage’s...
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Tales of the Red Tape #29: Drowning in New Regulations
Some 120 regulations taking effect in the past year require enhanced accommodations for disabled individuals at 65 different types of public and private facilities—encompassing 7 million privately...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Obama Slams Supreme Court over Obamacare
The highest elected official in the United States dished out an extra helping of irony yesterday when, in speaking at a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican...
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FACT CHECK: Obama Misleads on Medicare, Taxes, and Regulations
During a Sunday evening interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” President Obama made numerous factually inaccurate or misleading claims. Specifically, Obama claimed that he has not raised Americans’ taxes,...
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Debate Analysis: Did Regulation Quadruple Under Obama? The Numbers Say Yes
Regulatory policy made a cameo appearance in last night’s presidential debate when Governor Mitt Romney took aim at the Obama Administration’s penchant for making rules. “Regulations have quadrupled,”...
View ArticleTop 10 Heritage Research Papers of 2012
As the year comes to a close, we reflect on 2012 by offering highlights of the top 10 most-read research papers by Heritage scholars. 1) The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government By William Beach and...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Obama’s Red Tape Rising
Regulatory costs skyrocketed in the first term of the Obama Administration, which added nearly $70 billion to the already excessive annual burden of government do’s and don’ts. Virtually every aspect...
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New Red Tape Rising Report: Regulation in Obama’s First Term
Congress and the White House have been focused for much of this year on the federal budget—rightfully so, given perennial deficits and unsustainable levels of U.S. debt. However, federal spending...
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Top 5 Reports of the Week
1. Benghazi: Searching for Truth, Exposing Failure, and Saluting Heroism 2. Ghosts of Benghazi 3. Red Tape Rising: Regulation in Obama’s First Term 4. The Real Secret Behind the Stealth Fighter 5. Who...
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Washington Bureaucrats Unconstitutionally Making Public Policy
Frank Chmura/Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom Washington, D.C., is the country’s last “company town,” and the big industry is the federal government. So it isn’t received well here when someone dares...
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How Obama Is Strangling the Economy in Red Tape
Regulation: It’s a mostly hidden drain on the economy—and a favorite of the Obama administration. It affects all of our lives—and wallets—yet rarely makes headlines. Why? It’s complex; it’s constant;...
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From Your Microwave to Your Car, Government Leaves Nothing Untouched
Photo: Pete Souza How many government rules do we need? According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), federal regulators issued more than 2,000 new rules in 2013—doing such helpful things as...
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WSJ: Obama 'Regulator Without Peer'
Photo: Thinkstock In an editorial appearing today, The Wall Street Journal examined one of the few areas of the economy enjoying an unabated boom: federal regulation. Armed with numbers obtained from a...
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Obama on Overregulation: Less than Meets the Eye
There’s a new regulatory skeptic in town, and his name is Barack Obama. At least that’s the image the President tried to paint today in a bylined opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. The message...
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The Facts on Rising Red Tape: A Response to The Washington Post
Do regulatory costs matter? Not quite, according to the January 14 “Fact Checker” column on WashingtonPost.com. The column, by Glenn Kessler, criticizes Heritage’s recent “Red Tape Rising” report,...
View ArticleHere’s a Good Start, Mr. President: 20 Burdensome Regulations
While there is much in today’s address by President Obama to the US Chamber of Commerce to unpack, one issue that deserves response were his remarks about addressing unnecessary regulation. The...
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