Obama sets new record for regulations, 527 pages in just one day

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President Obama has just set a new record for rules and regulations, his administration spitting out 527 pages worth in just one day, as he races to put his fingerprint on virtually every corner of American life and business.

According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the administration has just shattered the old record for pages of regulations and rules published by the in-house journal, the Federal Register.

At 81,640 total pages for 2016, it ranks first and 235 pages more than all of those published in 2010, the previous record


What's more, there are still about 26 working days left in the year.

"No one knows what the future holds, but at a pace of well over 1,000 pages weekly, the Federal Register could easily top 90,000 pages this year. The simple algebra says that at the current pace we'll add 11,190 pages over the next 44 days, to end 2016 at around 92,830 pages," said CEI's Clyde Wayne Crews.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/o...ns-527-pages-in-just-one-day/article/2607677#!
"This is astonishing and should be of great concern, and intolerable, to policymakers. It is remarkable enough that the all-time record has been passed before Thanksgiving," he added.

Obama has promised to regulate by executive authority, but the sheer number of pages of regulations being rushed through is astonishing.

Still, it's not a big surprise to CEI and other regulation watchdogs.
 
Seventeen days before President Donald Trump, his spoken oath of office still lingering in the wintry air, lifts his left hand from Scripture (a leather-bound edition of "The Art of the Deal"), the Republican-controlled Congress will begin working. Fittingly, on Jan. 3 the First Branch of government will go first, flexing its somewhat atrophied Article I muscles.



When Trump reaches his desk on the morning of Jan. 21, he should find there two congressional measures emblematic of how quickly elections can have consequences. One should be the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, or REINS. The other should be legislation mandating construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. As president, Trump will have the authority and intent to proceed with construction, but Congress should make the point that this concerns national policy, which Congress should set.



The REINS Act would begin Congress's retrieval from the executive branch of responsibilities the Founders vested in the legislative branch. The act would sharply slow the growth of regulations that are suffocating economic growth. REINS would require Congress to vote on — to have its fingerprints on — all "major" regulations, understood as those with an annual economic impact of at least $100 million. Congress would thus take responsibility for, and be held accountable for, the substance that executive agencies' rule making pours into the almost-empty vessels that Congress imprecisely calls "laws."



After the preamble, the Constitution's first substantive word is "all": "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress." But the more than 170,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations contain tens of thousands of rules promulgated by largely unaccountable agencies. The agencies fill voids in congressional "laws" such as the Dodd-Frank financial reform, which mandates, but does not define — that is left to executive rule makers — "fair, transparent and competitive" financial products and services. As of five years ago — it is substantially worse now — the government itself estimated that regulations cost the economy more than $1.75 trillion, almost twice the sum of income tax receipts then.
https://www.adn.com/opinions/nation...-the-democrats-theater-of-pointless-gestures/
 
he REINS Act would begin Congress's retrieval from the executive branch of responsibilities the Founders vested in the legislative branch.
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win/win. Congress has to actually do something, and checks the regulatory state
 
Yaya said:
Can Trump undue these?
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he can. he will probable only undo many of the XO ( executive orders) that are major legislative type actions -like DARPA.

Many of these are produced by the "ABC agencies" ( the bureaucracies) -he can certainly undo any of those too by a stroke of a pen.

But his primary goal would be to appoint Dept heads that do not advocate/use such extensive regulations. i.e. "regulatory state"
 
anatta said:
he can. he will probable only undo many of the XO ( executive orders) that are major legislative type actions -like DARPA.

Many of these are produced by the "ABC agencies" ( the bureaucracies) -he can certainly undo any of those too by a stroke of a pen.

But his primary goal would be to appoint Dept heads that do not advocate/use such extensive regulations. i.e. "regulatory state"
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this is why the repeal 2 regulations for every 1 new one is so easy to do. If you set an intern on it they can probably come up with 100's of duplicate or overlapping regulations in one day lol.
 
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