Thursday, August 19, 2010
First Federal Register, 1936
Federal regulations keep piling up under President Barack Obama, who’s on pace to surpass the regulatory zeal of George W. Bush, writes Ryan Young, the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The Federal Register, the government’s book of new rules, currently stands at 50,842 pages in Obama’s first term. At this pace it would reach more than 80,000 pages. Bush left office with a Federal Register of 80,700 pages.
The record belongs to President Jimmy Carter (87,012 pages).
Young argues that Obama should appoint a bipartisan commission to find “harmful or obsolete regulations” and remove them for good.
“The time for this regulatory stimulus package is now,” he writes. “Today’s sky-high regulatory costs are one reason for the economy’s sluggish recovery. Doing business in America becomes more expensive every year, discouraging job-creating entrepreneurship. Keeping Federal Register page counts in check is important. Keeping the contents of those pages in check is even more important.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Federal Register Hits 50,000 Pages (by Ryan Young, Daily Caller)
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