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According to a new Competitive Enterprise Institute [3] study provided to Secrets, agency bureaucrats have finalized 47 times more new rules than laws passed in 2011, a runaway record over the past nine years.
CEI found that Congress passed just 81 new laws in 2011, but regulators OK'd 3,807 regulations. A year earlier, Congress approved 217 new laws compared to 3,573 rules, or 16 times more rules.
"It's quite eye-opening," said CEI's Wayne Crews [4]. "Regulators issue vastly more rules than those elected to make laws. Calling it unaccountable rulemaking is an understatement. It's un-Democratic."
Links:
[1] http://cei.org/expert/clyde-wayne-crews
[2] http://washingtonexaminer.com/out-of-control-47-new-regs-for-every-new-law/article/2519994
[3] http://www.openmarket.org
[4] http://www.openmarket.org/author/wayne-crews/