A study by the American Action Forum has concluded that the government will issue $34 billion in new regulations - delayed for political reasons until after the election. This study follows on the heels of another report issued last December that found the Obama administration severely delaying regulations until after the 2012 election: A new government report points to election-year politics as a factor in the delays of major regulations during the latter years of President Obama’s first term, and finds that White House reviews of proposed agency rules only got longer in the first half of this year. The study follows an analysis by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), an independent federal agency charged with monitoring the government’s rule-making process. The ACUS findings, first reported by The Washington Post, corroborate views held by watchdog groups and some congressional Democrats, who have criticized the Obama...(Read Full Post)