The Patriot Post® · Regulation Record in 2013

One of Barack Obama’s favorite refrains is to criticize a “do-nothing Congress.” Congress did reach a 10-year low in passing laws last year, but as is his wont, Obama also likes to simply bypass Congress for his own political ends. One such way is through regulation, and boy was 2013 a doozy. The administration issued 3,659 rules regulations last year, while Obama signed only 65 laws. The ratio of 56 regulations to every new law is a record. Doing nothing would be far preferable to what Washington is actually foisting upon us.