The Hill
Federal regulations cost economy $1.9T in 2015, controversial study claims
The Hill discusses with Wayne Crews his annual report on the size and costs of federal regulations. The cost of federal regulations is…
Fox News
Report: Federal regulations costing US $1.9T annually
Fox News discusses the cost of federal regulations as cited in Wayne Crews's annual report. Federal regulations are now costing U.S. taxpayers and businesses…
Heartland Institute
Bill Reining in Last-Minute Rulemaking Advances in Congress
The Heartland Institute discusses midnight regulations with Clyde Wayne Crews. Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Washington Times
Cost of complying with federal regulations hits $1.9 trillion — higher than federal tax burden
Washington Times discusses Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations. “Regulations cost more than the federal income tax,”…
Townhall
Yowza: Federal Regulations Are Costing Americans Insane Amounts of Money
Townhall reports on Wayne Crews's study on the size and cost of federal government regulation. According to a new report released by the…
The Patriot Post
Regulations Are the Ties That Bind
The Patriot Post mentions Wayne Crews's annual report on the number of federal regulations. Just how many regulations are we talking about? As of…
Blog
The Proliferation of Federal Agency Guidance Documents
Recently we looked at some prominent recent examples of federal agency guidance—costly to-dos for the private sector. Today I wanted to say just a…
Investor's Business Daily
How Overregulation Is Killing The Economy
The Investor's Business Daily highlights Wayne Crews's annual Ten Thousand Commandments report on the costs of federal regulation. The Competitive Enterprise Institute publishes…
Blog
When Bureaus Attack: Recent Examples of Federal Regulation by “Guidance Document”
In the recent paper “Why Congress Must End Regulation by Guidance Document,” I described the rise of federal agency regulatory dark matter and…
Forbes
Celebrating International Mother Earth Day With A Normal Western Civilization Gas Can
It’s the weekend after International Mother Earth Day 2016, and the United States signed the Paris Climate Agreement. To President Barack Obama, the…
TheBlaze
Governing by Blog Post? Report Finds Obama Administration Creatively Imposing New Federal Rules
TheBlaze reports on Wayne Crews's report on agency's regulation through guidance documents. The Obama administration, already under fire for bypassing Congress, is also finding…
Washington Times
Policy group warns of secretive ‘regulatory dark matter’ within the federal government
The Washington Times reports on Wayne Crews's research on the practice of federal agencies regulating through guidance documents and blog posts. The government can regulate the…
Daily Caller
Feds Using Blog Posts, Informal Docs To Skirt Regulatory Process
Study
Why Congress Must End Regulation by Guidance Document
Regulators are imposing new restrictions on American businesses and economic activity through guidance documents, memoranda and even blog posts, with little oversight from Congress or…
Blog
Federal Agency “Guidance Document” Disclosure Gaps Show Congress Is in the Dark on Regulatory Overreach
In “A Quick and Dirty Inventory of Federal Agencies' Significant Guidance Documents,” I provided, well, a quick and dirty table depicting “significant” (usually, not always,…
Forbes
Why President Barack Obama’s Executive Order On Competition Is Anti-Competitive
When you see a headline like “Obama to Sign Executive Order to Ignite Corporate Competition” you have to scratch your head at the premise,…
TheBlaze
White House: Executive Order Could Cut Regulations to Boost Competition
TheBlaze discusses Wayne Crews's recent report which discusses the number of regulations created in both Obama and Bush's administrations. The Obama administration has…
Blog
A Quick and Dirty Inventory of Federal Agencies’ Significant Guidance Documents
Much is written by many on federal agency regulations’ expansion and costs. Beyond those, guidance documents, memoranda, notices, and other regulatory dark matter…
Blog
Obama’s 7 Years of Regulation Easily Outstrip Bush’s 8
Annually, despite ups and downs, the number of federal rules and regulations tops 3,400. While the overall rule counts in the Federal Register and…
Washington Examiner
Obama passes Bush’s number of costly regs — and has 10 months to go
The Washington Examiner quotes an analysis by Wayne Crews on Obama's annual average of regulations. According to CEI's Clyde Wayne Crews, Obama has…
Forbes
Protecting Our Semi-Privacy After The Department Of Justice Apple iPhone Hack
The Department of Justice-sponsored unlocking of the Apple iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino murderers without Apple’s help reaffirmed that an overly encryption-based…
Forbes
Won’t Cut Federal Spending? Then Cap The Cost Of Regulation
Last week a group of libertarian and conservative groups issued a coalition letter calling on Congress to cap regulatory costs. While some of us…
American Spectator
Mr. Trump: America’s Economic Problem is Regulation, Not Trade
The Cato Institute's Doug Bandow cites Wayne Crews on the problem of the regulatory burden: Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has…
National Affairs
Putting Regulators on a Budget
National Affairs references Wayne Crews's work on the cost of regulation. In recent years, there have been several studies published describing the aggregate,…
Washington Times
Coalition of free market groups urges Congress to cap and track stifling federal regulations
The Washington Times reports on a coalition letter led by CEI that urges Congress to pass a budget that addresses regulation. Big government…
Blog
Common Property, Gains from Trade—and Statehood
Historian Staughton Lynd argued that the contemporaneously drafted Constitution and Northwest Ordinance of 1787 were themselves components of a larger implicit package that harmonized the…
Forbes
Antitrust Regulation Is Getting A Bit Smarter
Townhall
Washington’s Despotic Lawlessness
Townhall discusses Washington's lawlessness with Wayne Crews, author of the annual Ten Thousand Commandments reports. The Competitive Enterprise Institute is renowned for its…
Forbes
GOP Releases Contested 2017 Balanced Budget Proposal — With A Regulatory Budget Alongside
House Republican leadership released their 2017 “Balanced Budget for a Stronger America” fiscal year budget proposal. It seeks to balance the budget in 10…
Blog
Oversight Hearing Will Find Federal Regulatory Transparency Quite Opaque
The 2015 edition of White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) annual Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations was latest we’ve seen…
Wall Street Journal
Hillary’s Soft Despotism
The Wall Street Journal cites Wayne Crews's study on the size of the federal regulatory burden and it's effects. According to the most recent…
Forbes
Nobody Knows The Cost Of Antitrust Regulation, And That’s Bad
Antitrust regulation is hardly insignificant, and its costs need to be recognized in today’s world. We’ve seen interference into ATT‘s attempted merger with T-Mobile, delays…
Blog
Barack Obama as FCC Chairman
The saga of executive branch overreach continues, and we got a twofer today. The House Judiciary Task Force on Executive Overreach held a hearing this…
Blog
The One Year Anniversary of Net Neutrality
In the pen and phone era, one of the many examples of the descent into arbitrary lawmaking influencing an entire sector of the economy is…
Products
Big, bloated government
The Pittsburg Trib cites Wayne Crews's study on the federal regulatory state. It gets worse. Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Washington Times
Obama says he’s not a ‘big government’ liberal
The Washington Times cites CEI's study on the size of the Federal Register. But last year was a record-setting year for the Federal…
Forbes
The Growing Outrage Of Off-The-Books Federal Regulation
President Barack Obama has practically trademarked going around Congress, proclaiming “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone. And that’s all I…
Blog
Presidential Candidates Neglect Regulatory Bureaucracy
Allowing a $19 trillion federal debt when it was obvious that interest rates couldn’t remain zero forever is Exhibit A that legislatures rarely control spending.
Forbes
Memo To Presidential Candidates: Here’s How Oversight Of Federal Red Tape Is A Total Disaster
"[A]s more goals are pursued through rules and regulations mandating private outlays rather than through direct government expenditures, the Federal budget is an…
Forbes
Obama’s Budget Proposal Tops $4 Trillion, But Don’t Look To Republicans For Anything Better
Obama’s $4.147 trillion 2017 fiscal budget proposal won’t even merit a hearing in Congress, but it highlights similarities more than differences with Republicans. Among other…
Real Clear Policy
Washington’s ‘Dark Matter’ Regulations
In a recent Gallup poll, Americans named the government as the top problem facing our nation for the second year in a row —…
Breitbart
What Women Really Want to Talk About
Breitbart cites CEI's study on the number of regulations published in the Federal Register. And Competitive Enterprise Institute data shows the number of…
CNN
Reality Check: Carson on “absurd” government regulations
CNN's Reality Check Team references a study on regulations by Wayne Crews. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, there were…
The Heartland Institute
Obama Unveils Last-Minute Regulatory Agenda
The Heartland Institute discusses Obama's plans to release midnight regulations with Wayne Crews. Wayne Crews, vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise…
Forbes
Shaky Stock Market A Signal Obama Should Reconsider Veto Threat On Red Tape Relief
In his final State of the Union Address, with a sinking stock market as backdrop, President Barack Obama said, “I think there are outdated regulations…
Breitbart
America Must Tame Regulation, ‘Bring Small Businesses Back’
Breitbart mentions CEI's research on the impact of the regulatory burden on small businesses. Data compiled by the Competitive Enterprise Institute shows that…
Washington Examiner
Kasich touts one-year freeze on regulations
The Washington Examiner mentions CEI's study on the amount of regulations created in 2015. In 2015 alone, 3,378 rules and regulations were finalized,…
Watchdog.org
Obama missed opportunity to highlight red tape in final State of the Union
Watchdog.org quotes Wayne Crews on President Obama's final year in office and the large quantity of regulations to be expected. “Since the president’s final…
Forbes
Obama’s Legacy: An Abundance Of Executive Actions
President Barack Obama’s final-year aspirations as outlined in an earlier-than-usual State of the Union Address will likely showcase executive action on gun control (watch for…
Breitbart
Report: Federal Agencies Passed 39 New Regulations For Every One Law
Breitbart discusses Wayne Crews' report on the amount of rules that federal agencies created for every one law that Congress passed in 2015. …
USA Today
Employment statistics don’t tell whole story
USA Today mentions Wayne Crews' report on the amount of rules that federal agencies created for every one law that Congress passed in 2015. …
Forbes
CES 2016, Where Technology And Government Collide
At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here in Las Vegas, I got around to taking a few snapshots. There is the Consumer Technology Association’s…
Blog
The 2016 Unconstitutionality Index: 39 Federal Rules for Every Law Congress Passes
The New Year brought news of yet more executive action by President Obama, most prominently this time on tweaking the Second Amendment and access to…
Washington Times
The Unconstitutionality Index: 3,408 New Federal Regulations, 87 Laws
The Washington Times discusses Clyde Wayne Crews’ recent report on the alarming growth of regulations. The nation continues to be a playground for government…
Washington Examiner
Unconstitutionality Index: Obama issues 39 rules for every law
The Washington Examiner discusses the current administration's increase in regulations per law passed with Clyde Wayne Crews. "Bush's last six years averaged 17, while…
The Wall Street Journal
Happy New Regulatory Year
The Wall Street Journal cites CEI's Wayne Crews on the growing yearly tally of regulations: Unofficially, Mr. Obama’s Administration has once again…
Blog
Bureaucracy Unbound: 2015 Is Another Record Year For The Federal Register
With one day to go in 2015, the Federal Register tops off at 81,611 pages. That’s higher than last year at 77,687 pages and higher than it’s…
Blog
Washington Says Merry Christmas With 80,000 Pages Of Regulation
There may be a federal war on coal in the ground, but Washington has plenty of coal for your Christmas stocking. The Federal Register—where federal…
Blog
Obama Cements Status as King of Regulatory Bloat
Today marks a milestone for the one brandishing the Mighty Pen and Phone. The Federal Register hit 78,648 pages today. The Register is where the federal…
Washington Examiner
Report: Obama Sets Red Tape Record, 545,875 Pages
The Washington Examiner cites Wayne Crews' work on the scope of President Obama's record-setting regulations: What's more, Obama still has half a month…
Fox Business
The Federal Government’s Vegetative Universe
Fox Business reports on Wayne Crews' study on the hard-to-detect regulations created by federal agencies, without Congress' approval, and their economic costs. The rules hit…
Washington Examiner
Report: Obama admin winning the new regulations race
The Washington Examiner discusses Wayne Crew's report on the thousands of regulations that agencies pass each year. Federal agencies enacted 16 regulations for every one…
Investor's Business Daily
The Growing Threat Of “Dark Matter” Regulations
Investor's Business Daily reports on Wayne Crews' study on the growing regulatory burden created by executive orders, which are hard to detect. Author…
Study
Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness
Wayne Crews writes a preliminary inventory of “Regulatory Dark Matter.”…
Washington Examiner
Washington red tape nears new and costly record
The Washington Examiner discusses Obama Administration regulations with Wayne Crews and Ryan Young. The red tape pushed this year mimics its record in…
Daily Mail
Daily Mail editorial: Latest Obama regulations burden business growth
The Daily Mail, in their article on the regulatory burden of the Obama Administration, mentions CEI's report on the regulatory state. As the Competitive…
Blog
Washington’s Thanksgiving Turkeys: Here’s Your Chance to Fill Up on the White House’s 218 Economically Significant Rules
The president will pardon a couple turkeys again this year for Thanksgiving. The birds will take a carbon-intensive cross country flight from San Francisco International…
Forbes
Big Sexy Holiday Fun With The Fall 2015 Unified Agenda Of Federal Regulations
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s Fall 2015 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions is out, appearing the weekend before Thanksgiving…
Wall Street Journal
The Sweet Gig of Being a Bureaucrat
The Wall Street Journal cites CEI's study on the costs of regulation. Yet Washington’s success has no doubt contributed to America’s troubles. The Competitive…
Blog
Less than 1 Percent of Federal Regulations Get Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Obama administration likes to assert that all the rules and regulations pouring out of Washington have positive net-benefits. Billions of dollars in postulated net…
Washington Times
An easier way to rein in big government
The Washington Times mentions CEI's research on the costs of regulation. Over the past two years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National…
Blog
Net Neutrality Questions FCC Commissioners Need to Answer
In a House Energy & Commerce Committee oversight hearing on Tuesday, November 17, all five Federal Communications Commissioners will testify. Net neutrality, the FCC’s broad push…
Daily Caller
The Five most Damning Facts About Federal Regulation, In One Infographic
The Daily Caller features CEI’s infographic on federal regulations costs to the U.S. economy. CEI draws on their extensive report, Ten Thousand Commandments,…
Blog
Don’t Spare the ROD: An Inventory of Resolutions of Disapproval under the Congressional Review Act
Before Thanksgiving Day, both chambers of Congress are likely to consider so-called “Resolutions of Disapproval” to attempt to reject major, cripplingly expensive Environmental Protection Agency regulations…
The Hill
What went unsaid at first Democrat debate
The Hill references Wayne Crews on the missing report to Congress on the costs and benefits of regulation. Inquiries to the SBA about…
Daily Iowegian
Rein in Washington’s overgrowth
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley references Wayne Crews' study on federal regulation's cost to Americans in the senator's news release. Federal regulations create a…
Blog
Agency Overload: Meet the Federal Bureaucracy One-Page Word Cloud
There exist various counts of agencies in the federal bureaucracy, but no particular tally is regarded authoritative. The “Agency List” page maintained at FederalRegister.gov probably…
Blog
You Won’t Believe All the Ways Federal Agencies Issue Rules
Recently, I’d pointed out that we don’t really know how many federal agencies there are. That implies we don’t know how many rules and regulations…
Forbes
Still-MIA White House Report To Congress On Costs And Benefits Of Federal Regulation Is Latest Ever
The Blaze
‘No Authoritative List’: Federal Gov’t Lacks Precise Number on Just How Many Bureaucracies Exist
Wayne Crews discusses the murky number of federal agencies with The Blaze. Wayne Crews, vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Blog
Nobody Knows How Many Federal Agencies Exist
As bureaucracy sprawls, nobody can say with complete authority exactly how many federal agencies exist. The twice-annual Unified Agenda of Federal Deregulatory and Regulatory Actions, which…
Blog
Regulations Endanger Democracy
The House has passed some key regulatory reform measures this year, including the REINS Act most recently (which stands for “Regulations from the Executive In Need…
Forbes
The Problem With The White House Threat To Veto The REINS Act
The House this week, and later the Senate, will take up legislation to require that Congress approve all big federal agency regulations, those with $100…
Blog
Obama’s 2015 Report to Congress on Federal Regulations Is MIA
Blog
Sunsetting Federal Regulations
An average of around 70 rules and regulations are issued every week. There were 3,554 in 2015, and have been 1,693 in 2015 as of…
Forbes
Congress Better Fix ‘Regulatory Dark Matter’
In pursuit of job creation and economic growth, Congress is debating several red tape reforms with elevated but still insufficient focus. In the wake of its…
Forbes
Sorry Folks, Independence Day Is Canceled
“Well, Doctor [Franklin], what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” This…
Forbes
U.S. Airlines Face Antitrust Collusion Investigation–What’s The Big Deal?
Airlines, apparently including United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines…
Blog
Independence Day? Yeah, Right: A Fourth of July Roundup of Federal Regulation
Congress is in recess and can’t do any more damage as the Fourth of July approaches, but federal agencies remain in business until they enjoy…
The Washington Examiner
Choke: 1,568 new regs, 38,000 Federal Register pages already this year
The Washington Examiner quotes CEI`s Clyde Wayne Crews on new rules and regulations imposed by president Obama. President Obama is making good on…
Blog
One Nation, Ungovernable? Confronting the Modern Regulatory State
(Note: What follows is a hyperlinked version of the introductory paragraphs to the chapter of the same name in the new Fraser Institute/Mercatus…
Forbes
White House’s Final 2014 Report To Congress On Regulatory Costs And Benefits Appears
The White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) final 2014 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs…
Blog
How Many Significant Regulations Escape Congress’ Notice?
The Spring 2015 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions was released in late May, presenting recently completed actions and ongoing priorities of the federal…
Heartland
Senators Question Federal Agencies’ Backdoor Rulemaking
CEI`s Vice-President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. talks to the Heartland on the Federal Agencies` backdoor rulemaking. “The new effort…
Forbes
Memo To Presidential Campaigns — Federal Regulation Matters More Than Spending
President Barack Obama’s federal budget proposal for FY 2016 sought $3.999 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and interest spending; the Republican alternative a little…
Blog
Obama Has Issued More “Economically Significant” Rules in 6.5 Years than Bush Did in Eight
It happens to be the case that, in terms of overall counts of rules and regulations published in the Federal Register as final rules, the George W.
Blog
Here Are All 205 “Economically Significant” Rules in the Spring 2015 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations
The Spring 2015 Unified Agenda of Federal Deregulatory and Regulatory Actions was released by the Obama administration just before Memorial Day weekend. It’s less of a…
Forbes
A Comprehensive Regulatory Reform Agenda, Barack Obama Veto Pen Notwithstanding
Congress passes a few dozen laws each year, but regulators meanwhile issue several thousand rules and regulations. On top of that, “regulatory dark matter“…
Forbes
Now More Than Ever, Make ABC ‘s George Stephanopoulos Moderate Presidential Debates
I’ve never been a fan of the “objective media” platitude, preferring competing biases to pretended objectivity. The crucial corollary to that, though, is that…
US News
The Real Cost of Regulation
Peter Roff cites Wayne Crews' work on the cost of regulation in U.S. News. These costs are not insignificant. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute…