Obama’s Second Term To-Do List Positioned to Out-Regulate Bush

Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek, March 15, 2012

Rulemaking rarely is as one-sided toward costs as critics sometimes make it out to be, O’Connell said. “The system is set up to make sure that agencies balance benefits and costs. The only way a rule is going to see very high costs is with even higher benefits,” she said.