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7
Jazz Shaw, “Senate bill targets NLRB creation of ‘micro’ unions,” HotAir. com, November 16, 2011.
8
“Help Halt the NLRB’s Assault on America’s Union-Free Employees and Companies,”
The Liberty Watch
, December 5, 2011.
9
NLRB Watch, “The Union-Controlled NLRB issues complaint against Boeing for transferring work to a non-union facility,” LaborUnionReport. com, April 20, 2011.
10
Joe Weisenthal, “Suddenly, The White House Claims It’s Pro-Growth And Pro-Business,”
Business Insider
, July 7, 2010.
11
Dennis Jacobe, “Gov’t Regulations at Top of Small-Business Owners’ Problem List,”
Gallup.com
, October 24, 2011.
12
Fareed Zakaria, “Obama’s CEO problem - and ours,”
Washington Post
, July 5, 2010.
13
Steven Pearlstein, “Obama vs. big business: The battle everyone can lose,”
Washington Post
, July 7, 2010.
14
Lloyd Grove, “The Elite Turn Against Obama,”
Daily Beast
, July 7, 2010.
15
Jon Ward, “Lack of jobs increasingly blamed on uncertainty created by Obama’s policies,”
The Daily Caller
, July 7, 2010.
16
Ken Sweet, “3M CEO slams Obama as ‘anti-business,’” CNN
Money
, February 28, 2011.
17
Susan Feyder, “3M’s CEO says Obama is driving firms away,”
Star Tribune
, March 1, 2011.
18
Jon Ward, “Lack of jobs increasingly blamed on uncertainty created by Obama’s policies,”
The Daily Caller
.
19
“Wynn Resorts’ CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript,”
SeekingAlpha.com
, July 18, 2011.
20
Ibid.
21
Albert R. Hunt, “Obama Get’s a Bum Rap With Anti-Business Charge,”
BusinessWeek
, July 4, 2010.
22
“Obama: ‘Nothing More Important’ Than A Government Job,”
RealClearPolitics
video, May 12, 2011.
23
Terence P. Jeffrey, “Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn’t ‘Shrink,’” CNS News, June 23, 2011.
24
David Jackson, “Obama backs debt collection via cellphone,”
USA Today
The Oval, October 4, 2011.
25
Jon Ward, “Obama as anti-business moves into mainstream discussion,”
The Daily Caller
, July 8, 2010.
26
“Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas,” WhiteHouse.gov, December 6, 2011.
27
Mike Brownfield, “Morning Bell: The Last Incarnation of Barack Obama,” the Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, December 7, 2011.
28
“Who Pays Income Taxes?” The National Taxpayers Union, 2011.
29
Editors, “The Buffett Alternative Tax,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 20, 2011.
30
“JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon: Stop Bashing the Rich,” Associated Press and Reuters, December 7, 2011.
31
Mike Brownfield, “State of the Union 2012: Heritage Reaction Roundup,” the Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, January 24, 2012.
32
“Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms as GOP Bends to Will of Tea Party,” Fox News, September 25, 2011. As Obama’s adviser David Plouffe said, “The American people are screaming out, saying it’s unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have—along with lawmakers—have cooked into the books here.”
33
Mike Brownfield, “Morning Bell: Buffett Rule 101,”
The Heritage Foundation, The Foundry
, April 11, 2012; Ashe Schow, “Note to Pres. Obama: The Rich Don’t Pay Less Than Their Secretaries,”
Heritage Action for America
, September 20, 2011; and Thomas Cloud, Boehner: Obama Should Contribute 10% More of His Income to the Government, CNSNews, April 17, 2012.
34
Mike Brownfield, “Morning Bell: Buffett Rule 101,” the Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, April 11, 2012.
35
Douglas H. Shulman, Rosemary D. Marcus, M. Susan Boehner, and David P. Paris, “Individual Income Tax Returns 2009,” Publication 1304 (Rev. 07-2011), IRS.gov, 2009, and Mark Perry, “Fact-Checking the Buffett Rule: The Math Doesn’t Add Up,” The Enterprise Blog, September 21, 2011.
36
Ashe Schow, “Note to Pres. Obama: The Rich Don’t Pay Less Than Their Secretaries,” Heritage Action for America, September 20, 2011.
37
Bernie Becker, “Tax Break for Charitable Giving Targeted,”
The Hill
, March 27, 2011.
38
Michael Tomasky, “Obama Finally Seizes the Moment in His Kansas Speech,”
The Daily Beast
, December 7, 2011.
39
Ron Fournier, “No TR: The Limits of Obama’s Bully Pulpit,”
National Journal
, December 6, 2011.
40
Editors, “Obama’s Middle Class Speech Falls Short of a Cure,”
USA Today
, December 7, 2011.
41
Editors, “Rightly targeting income inequality,”
Washington Post
, December 7, 2011.
42
Rea Hederman, Jr. and James Sherk, “Heritage Employment Report: April Jobs Report Shows Showers, not Flowers,” the Heritage Foundation, May 6, 2011.
43
Robert Costa, “Haley Pressures Obama, ‘12 Field on NLRB,” National Review Online
The Corner
, April 25, 2011.
44
Ibid.
45
Doug McKelway, “Senate Republicans Threaten to Fight NLRB Nominations Over Boeing Complaint,” Fox News, May 5, 2011.
46
Mike Brownfield, “Morning Bell: Obama’s Attack on Private Industry,” the Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, May 9, 2011.
47
Keith Lang, “Issa: NLRB Withdrawal a ‘Victory,’ but Investigation Will Continue,”
The Hill
, December 9, 2011.
48
Ibid.
49
Steven Greenhouse, “Labor Board Drops Case Against Boeing,”
New York Times
, December 9, 2011.
50
Tina Korbe, “NLRB finalizes rule to establish ambush elections,” HotAir. com, December 21, 2011.
51
Andrew Stiles, “Obama and the Regulators,” National Review Online, August 25, 2011.
52
Hans A. von Spakovsky and James Sherk, “The New NLRB: Boeing is Just the Beginning,” National Review Online, May 16, 2011.
53
Ibid.
54
Matthew Boyle, “Obama’s Department of Labor forces unionization,”
The Daily Caller
, January 18, 2011.
55
Matthew Boyle, “Obama uses ‘green’ emissions standards to push truckers into Teamsters Union,”
The Daily Caller
, January 26, 2011.
56
James P. Hoffa, “The Ports Challenge,”
Huffington Post
, March 1, 2010.
57
President Barack Obama, “Op-ed: Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 18, 2011.
58
Ibid.
59
Erik Wasson, “White House Unveils Plans to Trim Regs, Save at Least $10 Billion,”
The Hill
, August 23, 2011.
60
Katie Boyd, “Chamber: White House Review Won’t ‘Make Any Impact on the Overall Regulatory Burdens’ Facing Job Creators,” Speaker of the House John Boehner
Speaker Alert
, August 23, 2011.
61
Erik Wasson, “White House Unveils Plans to Trim Regs, Save at Least $10 Billion,”
The Hill
.
62
John Merline, “Regulation Business, Jobs Booming Under Obama,”
Investors Business Daily
, August 15, 2011.
63
Mark Drajem and Catherine Dodge, “Obama Wrote 5% Fewer Rules Than Bush While Costing Business,” Bloomberg, October 25, 2011,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-25/obama-wrote-5-fewer-rules-than-bush-while-costing-business.html
.
64
James L. Gattuso and Diane Katz, “Red Tape Rising: A 2011 Mid-Year Report on Regulation,” Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder
No. 2586, July 25, 2011,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/red-tape-rising-a-2011-mid-year-report
.
65
Ibid.
66
Ibid.
67
James Gattuso, “Obama’s Red Tape: Tsunami or Ripple?” the Heritage Foundation
Web Memo
, November 8, 2011.
68
Curtis W. Copeland and Maeve P. Carey, “REINS Act: Number and Types of ‘Major Rules’ in Recent Years,” Congressional Research Service, February 24, 2011.
69
James Gattuso and Diane Katz, “Red Tape Rising: Obama-Rea Regulation at the Three-Year Mark,” the Heritage Foundation, March 13, 2012.
70
Ibid.
71
Senator John Barrasso, M.D., “Red Tape Review, Regulations by the Numbers for 2011,” Senate Republican Conference, December 2, 2011.
72
John Merline, “Regulation Business, Jobs Booming Under Obama,”
Investors Business Daily
.
73
Senator John Barrasso, “Barrasso: Regulatory overreach smothering economy,”
Washington Times
, August 22, 2011.
74
Paul Bedard, “Report: Obama Administration Added $9.5 Billion in Red Tape in July,”
US News & World Report
, August 3, 2011.
75
“EPA Boiler Emission Rules Could Cost $20 Billion and 800,000 Jobs,” the Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, November 1, 2010, and James L. Gattuso, Diane Katz, and Stephen A. Keen, “Red Tape Rising: Obama’s Torrent of New Regulation,” Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder
No. 2482.
76
Diane Katz, “President Obama’s Regulatory Bait-and-Switch,” the Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, August 24, 2011.
77
Katie Boyd, “Chamber: White House Review Won’t ‘Make Any Impact on the Overall Regulatory Burdens’ Facing Job Creators,” Speaker of the House John Boehner
Speaker Alert
.
78
Philip Klein, “Obamacare Menu Regs Eat Into Small-Business Profits,”
Washington Examiner
, August 8, 2011.
79
Ibid.
80
Alan Rappeport, “Coca-Cola Chief Criticizes US Tax Rules
,

Financial Times
, September 26, 2011.
81
Clarence Otis Jr., “What’s stopping job creation? Too much regulation,” CNN, December 6, 2011.
82
John Merline, “Regulation Business, Jobs Booming Under Obama,”
Investors Business Daily
.
83
“Executive Summary: Economic Freedom of the World: 2011 Annual Report,”
Freetheworld.com
, 2011.
84
Mike Brownfield, “Morning Bell: Tangled Up in Washington’s Red Tape,” the Heritage Foundation
The Foundry
, July 27, 2011.
85
Jessica Estepa, “GOP Media Goes Guerilla,”
Roll Call
, September 12, 2011, and Elisabeth Meinecke, “GOP Releases 5 Job Destroying Regulations Proposed By the Obama Administration,”
Townhall.com
, September 22, 2011.
86
T. Randolph Beard, Ph.D., George S. Ford, Ph.D., Hyeongwoo Kim, Ph.D., and Lawrence J. Spiwak, Esq., “Regulatory Expenditures, Economic Growth and Jobs: An Empirical Study,” Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies, April 2011.
87
Phil Kerpen, “The REINS Act Ends Unchecked Bureaucratic Power,”
The Hill
Congress Blog, December 2, 2012.
88
Senator Marco Rubio, “Reining in the Feds,” National Review Online, December 7, 2011.
89
Peter Schiff, Prepared Testimony Before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending, Hearing on Take Two: The President’s Proposal to Stimulate the Economy and Create Jobs,
Financial Markets Regulatory Wire
, September 13, 2011.
90
James Gattuso, “Joblessness and Regulation: The ‘Mass Layoff’ Fallacy,”
Heritage.org
, November 21, 2011, and Editors, “Democrat Denial Of Impact Of Regulations On Economy Holds Back Robust U.S. Recovery,”
IBD
Editorials, November 21, 2011.
91
James Gattuso, “Joblessness and Regulation: The ‘Mass Layoff’ Fallacy,”
Heritage.org
.
92
John Merline, “Regulation Business, Jobs Booming Under Obama,”
Investors Business Daily
.

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