Heartland Daily Podcast – Sam Batkins: Obama Has Imposed 600+ Major Regulations

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H. Sterling Burnett

Managing Editor, Environment & Climate News at The Heartland Institute

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is managing editor of Environment & Climate News and a research fellow for environment and energy policy at The Heartland Institute. Burnett worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis for 18 years, most recently as a senior fellow in charge of NCPA’s environmental policy program. He has held various positions in professional and public policy organizations, including serving as a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller’s e-Texas commission.

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In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Sam Batkins, Director of Regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, joined the podcast to discuss his new paper titled “600 Major Regulations.”

In more than six years in office, President Obama had imposed more regulations than President Bush did in eight years. The administration has issued a record-breaking figure 600 major regulations in roughly 7.5 years, 20 percent more than the previous president didin eight years, for a combined economic burden on the economy of at least $743 billion, larger than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Norway and Israel combined. This burden amounts to $2,294 regulatory costs on every person in the United States. These rules often impose high costs on businesses and individuals while resulting in few if any benefits.

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