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Government Regulation Is on the Rise Under Obama. This Infographic Explains Why.

James Gattuso | Diane Katz • May 18, 2015

The number and cost of government regulations continued to climb in 2014, intensifying Washington’s control over the economy and Americans’ lives.

The addition of 27 new major rules pushed the tally for the Obama administration’s first six years to 184, with scores of other rules in the pipeline. The cost of just these 184 rules is estimated by regulators to be nearly $80 billion annually, although the actual cost of this massive expansion of the administrative state is obscured by the large number of rules for which costs have not been fully quantified.

The infographic below chronicles the trends in rulemaking activity as featured in “Red Tape Rising,” a new report that The Heritage Foundation will highlight in an event Tuesday with Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and James Lankford, R-Okla.

Government Regulation Is on the Rise Under Obama. This Infographic Explains Why.

James Gattuso | Contributor

James Gattuso handles regulatory and telecommunications issues for The Heritage Foundation as a Senior Research Fellow in its Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. Read his research.

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Diane Katz, who has analyzed and written on public policy issues for more than two decades, is a senior research fellow in regulatory policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.

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