Sandy Stringfellow shared a link. What has the Progressive RINO Establishment done to thwart it? Too busy feathering their own nests as expert game-players... From Elizabeth Harrington -- An extra 1.5 billion hours of paperwork are now needed to comply with federal regulations, despite President Barack Obama’s executive order that promised to eliminate “excessively burdensome” rules. A new report released by the American Action Forum (AAF) on Wednesday evening analyzed each cabinet agency’s “retrospective review” of their regulations and found that costs to the economy increased by over $43.8 billion. The reviews are required by Executive Order 13563, which was issued by President Barack Obama in January 2011. Agencies must assess major regulations and issue plans to modify “outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or excessively burdensome” rules. [...] Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Howard Shelanski said that the administration has achieved more than $10 billion in regulatory costs as a result of the executive order. However, the AAF found that two new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would cancel out those savings. “EPA lists two rules that are hardly regulatory lookbacks: new fuel efficiency standards for automobiles and sulfur emissions standards for vehicles,” the report said. “Combined, these two rules will impose more than $12.3 billion in annual costs, enough to easily eclipse the purported $10 billion in regulatory savings.” freebeacon/issues/report-1-5-billion-hours-of-regulatory-paperwork-added-since-2010/
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:39:30 +0000
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