Congress must be ready to stop Obama’s second term regulatory barrage

By: Sen. James Inhofe 11/7/2012 02:32 PM

 With President Obama winning a second term, the administration is back on track to unleash its job-killing regulatory barrage. Many of the most costly and burdensome regulations were already underway – especially at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But over the course of the campaign, the American public likely didn’t hear too much about them. The Obama campaign understood just how unpopular this regulatory agenda would be with the American people, so the administration went to great lengths to keep it under wraps, even going so far as to violate the law.
The Obama campaign knew early on in the race that President Obama’s first term green energy agenda had failed and was unpopular with the millions of Americans out of work. As a result, the campaign slowly and quietly shifted the President’s rhetoric to talk of a new found love of oil, gas and coal. In addition, the Obama administration began punting on a series of EPA regulations that they knew would strangle economic growth and put more Americans out of work. In order to hide this agenda, the administration even refused to publish their regulatory plans, as is required under the law. National Journal noted that this is “the longest lag between outlooks since the deadline schedule was created in 1994.”  To Read More......