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Morning Examiner: Obama’s real regulation record

By Conn Carroll

Published March 16, 2012 4:00am ET

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Morning Examiner: Obama’s real regulation record — ou probably remember this line from President Obama’s State of the Union this January: “There’s no question that some regulations are outdated, unnecessary, or too costly. In fact, I’ve approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his.” This is, in fact, true. But as a […]

ou probably remember this line from President Obama’s State of the Union this January: “There’s no question that some regulations are outdated, unnecessary, or too costly. In fact, I’ve approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his.”

This is, in fact, true. But as a new Heritage Foundation report on federal regulation shows, it is also highly misleading.

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