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<p style="font-size:xx-small;"> Sept. 4, 2011: Shown here is the main plant facility at the
Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz.APPresident
Obama, in each of his last three State of the Union addresses,
spoke urgently of the need to cut through the "red tape" in
Washington.But regulatory costs for the American public and business community,
it turns out, soared during his first term. A new report by
the conservative Heritage Foundation estimates that annual regulatory costs
increased during Obama's first four years by nearly $70 billion -- with
more regulations in store for term two."While historical records are incomplete,
that magnitude of regulation is likely unmatched by any administration in
the nation's history," the report said.The analysis by Heritage did not
count every single regulation issued in Obama's first term, but looked at
"major" regulations impacting the private sector. It came up with 131 over
the past four years -- many of them environmental. In addition to
the $70 billion in annual costs from those rules, the report estimated
that new regulations from the first term led to roughly $12 billion
in one-time "implementation costs."The math is up for debate. Even Heritage
acknowledges there is no "official accounting" for federal regulatory costs.
But government agencies, as well as think tanks like Heritage, have tried
to track the price tag by looking at records maintained by the
Government Accountability Office and age
awmakers are pushing to renew the subsidy.The Forest Service
issue provides one look at the real-world fallout of sequestration, which
began March 1 after Congress and President Barack Obama failed to agree
on a deficit-cutting plan. Forced to find the required savings in the
wobbly aftermath of recession, federal officials are getting creative --
reducing hours at courthouses, furloughing employees and cutting back services.
The full impact of sequestration remains unclear because most of the reductions
have yet to take effect.Ryan Yates of the National Association of Counties
said state and local officials understand that sequestration is the law
of the land and that future cuts to scores of federal programs
are inevitable. But there is widespread concern that the Forest Service's
action means that the sequestration's reach is far greater than they anticipated."This
retroactive move by the administration to squeeze more money from rural
forest communities is not only legally questionable, but insults the longstanding
relationship between counties and the federal government," Yates said.Tidwell's
March letters to the governors incited lawmakers and state officials, who
said the payments came from revenues generated in the 2012 budget year
and were therefore not subject to sequestration.The National Governors'
Association advised governors to consult closely with their legal staffs
before making a decision."No one has ever heard of an age
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