State lawmakers didn’t let a gubernatorial veto stop them from pursuing regulatory reform this year. Now Susan Ferrechio documents for Washington Examiner readers that U.S. House Republican leaders are also looking to rein in multibillion-dollar regulatory burdens.

President Obama on Tuesday sent Congress a eye-popping list of expensive new rules he wants to implement, including new limits on smog that could cost up to $90 billion to put in place.

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Obama described seven pending regulations that he said could cost more than $1 billion each to implement. Boehner had asked for the list in an Aug. 26 letter that cited a 15 percent increase in proposed new regulations by Obama’s administration since last year.

Obama, in his letter, defended his regulatory record. He noted that the cost of “economically significant” rules that have been proposed were higher at the end of the Bush administration than they have been in the first two years of his administration and that the benefits of his new rules exceeded the costs “by tens of billions of dollars.”

Nonetheless, when Congress returns next week Republicans will immediately begin pushing for legislation that would block Obama’s proposed regulations, which the GOP claims would destroy jobs and damage the economy.

The smog rule, expected by the end of this year, would establish more restrictive standards for ozone levels and is one of the regulations in the GOP’s cross hairs.