President Obama’s regulatory freight train is crashing through even his own records and is set to hit an all-time red tape high, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Using the weighty Federal Register as the guide, Obama is on a path to print more pages than ever before December, a month he is expected to turn on the regulation jets as he nails down his legacy on issues such as Obamacare, global warming and financial reform.
CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews has been charting the rising red tape and on Monday reported that this year’s Federal Register just became the ninth fattest ever at 75,670 pages.
“While the highest count ever was Barack Obama’s 81,405 pages in 2010, it is obvious that this figure will easily be surpassed, probably before December,” he wrote, in calling for a countdown on when the administration will pass that number.
This all calls for a countdown. Earlier records and today’s milestone appear in the chart nearby. Each day that the Obama count notches itself up the Top 10 countdown, we’ll post a new chart.
By the looks of things, it’s going to turn out to be the case that of all the Top Ten counts, seven of them are going to belong to President Obama. Let’s hear it for the pen and phone!
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
