Dizzying Blizzard of Rules: Government adds 1,516 pages to the Federal Register
Posted: February 17, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Competitive Enterprise Institute, Federal Register, Feds, Mother Nature, Regulation, Twitter, United States Congress, Washington 2 Comments
Feds adding new regulation every 3 hours…
Breanna Deutsch writes: Last week Mother Nature shut down Washington’s government offices for a day, but the extreme weather was no match for federal regulators.
Over that time period, 1,516 new pages and 56 additional final regulations were published in the Federal Register, according to the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Broken down, that is the equivalent of a new regulation added about every three hours.
We are only in the second month of 2014 and already the Federal Register has mushroomed to 9,079 pages. At this pace, the register will accumulate 73,218 pages by 2015. Shockingly, this would be the lowest total in five years.
Not all regulations are created equal — some are far more costly than others. So far this year there have been six final rules deemed “economically significant,” meaning they will have costs of $100 million or more in a given year. At this point, these six regulations have an estimated monetary impact of somewhere in between $614 million and $885 million. This figure will only continue to grow throughout the remaining months of 2014.
The 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA) requires federal agencies to submit reports to Congress on economically significant rules…
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pundit from another planet 
And we were actually supposed to be concerned when the Govt. shut down
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