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.
Fact-check: President Barack Obama claims his regulatory review is unprecedented
Verdict: pants-fire
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Robert Farley
Date published: 2011-06-29T00:00:00