A new government report shows regulations have "spiked" since President Barack Obama took office, the Hill reports.
His administration has published more final rules in his first term than George W. Bush did in his second.
At the same time, the Obama White House’s review period for pending regulations was longer in 2012 than any point going back to at least to 1994, according to the report from the CRS, Congress’s research arm.
From 2009 through last year, there were more than 13,000 final rules published in the Federal Register, while fewer than 12,400 were finalized from 2005-2008, the report found. That’s an increase of nearly five percent.
The Heritage Foundation estimated in a report last week that Obama’s first term regulations cost $70 billion.
