claim: "what i have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is i've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'"
author: barack obama
evidence_1: jun 29, 2011 ... but what i have done -- and this is unprecedented, by the way, no administration  has done this before -- is i've said to each agency, don't just look at current ... that  we're proposing, let's go backwards and look at regulations that are already on  the books, and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.
evidence_2: aug 23, 2011 ... "what i have done -- and this is unprecedented, by the way; no administration  has done this before -- is i've said to each agency, 'don't just look at current  regulations or don't just ... let's go backwards and look at regulations that are  already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'".
evidence_3: dec 17, 2015 ... "what i have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is i've said to each agency ... ' look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense,  let's get rid of them.'" (obama, 2011). politifact scores this as "pants on fire"  because bush i and clinton also took this "unprecedented" move.
evidence_4: pants on fire! not unprecedented at all. barack obama · "what i have done --  and this is unprecedented ... is i've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that  are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'" —  politifact national on wednesday, june 29th, 2011. pants on fire! america is  one of ...
evidence_5: feb 16, 2017 ... i don't think there's ever been a president elected who, in this short period of time,  has done what we've done. .... makes sense. nobody has ever seen regulations  like we have. if you go to other countries and you look at industries they have,  and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, ...