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Washington Post “Fact Checker” Column Still in Denial over Regulatory Costs
The Washington Post “Fact Checker” column is running its critiques of the Republican convention, and in the process is trying again to rebuff a $15,000…
Daily Caller
GOP Platform: It’s Time To Get Rid Of The EPA
The Daily Caller cites the cost of federal regualtions as calculated in Wayne Crews's annual report on the size of the federal regulatory state. …
Charleston Gazette-Mail
Capito attacks coal regulations, Clinton’s emails at RNC
Senator Shelley Moore Capito, in her speech at the Republican National Convention, focuses on the cost of federal regulations citing a figure from Wayne Crews's annual…
Study
Channeling Reagan by Executive Order
How the Next President Can Begin Rolling Back the Obama Regulation Rampage…
Blog
House Judiciary Subcommittee Assesses OMB Review of Federal Regulations
Last week on July 6, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Sub-Committee Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law conducted a hearing on…
Forbes
Here’s How Financial And Other Regulators Are Issuing Rules Without Writing Them
At the end of June I testified in a U.S. Senate Homeland Security Regulatory oversight subcommittee hearing on Examining the Use of Agency Regulatory…
Blog
Testimony on Regulatory Budgeting before the House Budget Committee
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee conducted a hearing on An Introduction to Regulatory Budgeting, and I was invited to testify by Chairman…
Politico
Congress is back!
Politico's Morning Energy mentions Wayne Crews's report on a federal regulatory budget. The House has all the committee action on the energy front,…
Newsmax
What We Can Learn From Britain’s Exit
Newsmax discusses Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations. Some regulations make sense. Most libertarians could accept the…
Blog
Examining Agency (Over)Use of Regulatory Guidance Documents
Today the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management conducted a hearing on "Examining the Use of Agency…
The American Conservative
An American Brexit?
The American Conservative highlights a report on executive actions by Wayne Crews. Congressional oversight is minimal. There are just too few legislators to…
The Hill
Business report: Regulate the regulators
The Hill reports on Wayne Crews's report on calculating the true cost of government with a regulatory budget. The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)…
Study
Toward a Federal Regulatory Budget
The Pitfalls in Quantifying Regulatory Costs and How to Avoid Them…
E&E News
Panel features critic of ‘regulatory dark matter’
E&E News reports on Wayne Crews testifying on federal agencies regulating through guidance documents before a Senate subcommittee. The conservative scholar who writes the…
Blog
Wireless Net Neutrality: You Were Warned
Hundreds of people have been burrowing into this week’s D.C. District Court of Appeals 2-1 decision giving the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) everything it wanted…
Daily Caller
Upholding Net Neutrality Will Put Us Back In The Slow Lane
The Daily Caller reports on the cost of federal regulations with Wayne Crews. This is but one recent example of the unintended consequences…
Blog
New Options for Regulatory Reform from Speaker Ryan
We here at the Competitive Enterprise Institute appreciate the release of the new report by the Task Force on Reducing Regulatory Burdens, issued as part…
Fox News
America desperately needs relief from regulations. Ryan’s plan is a good place to start
Fox News references Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations. Regulations are the silent killer. In its most…
Washington Examiner
Fighting Back Against Obama’s Regulatory Regime
The Washington Examiner mentions CEI's calculation of the cost of federal regulations. It's hard to find anything much more detrimental to economic growth…
Blog
Controlling Federal Agency Guidance Documents: A To-Do List for Congress and Reformers
When I wrote about the proliferation of federal agency guidance documents and other regulatory “dark matter” that skirts Congressional oversight and even normal…
Cato Unbound
The Administrative State Lacks Its Own Justification: Expertise
Legitimacy notwithstanding, we tend to discuss the administrative state as if it is a functioning expert entity, taking expertise in its divisions for granted. But…
Forbes
Bureaucracy’s Paradox: When Fewer Regulations Mean Less Freedom
"To limit abuse by the rulers, ancient Rome wrote down the law and permitted citizens to read it. Under Dodd-Frank, regulatory authority is…
Cato Unbound
No Law Passed, Not Even A Regulation Promulgated—But Servitude Nonetheless
In my last post I suggested that I may point out a few prominent examples of agencies regulating with “guidance” alone rather than the notice-and-comment…
Blog
Federal Regulations Affecting Small Business
It is often said that there is no such thing as a free lunch, something particularly true for the small businessperson. The “Small Business…
Wall Street Journal
We’re All in Disney World
The Wall Street Journal recommends Wayne Crews's annual study on the size and cost of federal regulations. We want to get to the…
Cato Unbound
On the Administrative State’s Illegitimacy
"Who is better than overreaching bureaucrats to decide when the bureaucrats are overreaching?” That was one respondent’s characterization of the mindset that provoked the recently…
Washington Times
Killing the regulatory parasite
The Washington Times highlights Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and costs of federal regulations. From the new annual report, Ten Thousand…
Wall Street Journal
Trump for Blow-Upper in Chief?
The Wall Street Journal highlights Wayne Crews's annual report on the cost and size of federal regulations. The Competitive Enterprise Institute finds that,…
Forbes
Obama Releases Spring 2016 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations
In the just-released spring 2016 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations (Agenda), a roundup published twice yearly by the White House Office of Management and…
Daily Caller
Obama Has 3,260 Rules In The Regulatory Pipeline
The Daily Caller discusses the White House's budget office annual agenda for regulations with Wayne Crews. “These rules are projected to have economic…
Blog
Regulation: A 28 Percent Hidden Tax For The Family
When corporations pay taxes, you pay taxes. That is, while it’s popular to tax rich corporations, and even if they write the check to the…
The Fiscal Times
The Crushing Cost of Regulation: $4 Trillion Since 1980
The Fiscal Times mentions Wayne Crews's annual study on the cost of federal regulation. That's a big deal. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, in…
Patriot Post
Killing Us Softly With Overregulation
The Patriot Post discusses Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulation. Each year the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…
Reuters
U.S. Global Investors Reports Financial Results for the Third Quarter of 2016 Fiscal Year
Reuters discusses the cost of federal regulation as analyzed in Wayne Crews's annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. The company's revenues have been hit…
Blog
Regulatory Cost Blowout: Burden Is Triple the Deficit, Greater than Personal and Corporate Income Taxes Combined
The last time the federal government balanced the budget was between 1998 and 2001. But those were days when a $2 trillion federal budget…
Wall Street Journal
So Many Rules, So Few Opportunities
The Wall Street Journal features Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations. Friday’s jobs report from the Labor…
The Hill
Presidential candidates should talk about regulation
From “lyin’” to “low-energy,” the current election’s lowering of the rhetorical bar to levels that challenge even the most nimble limbo dancer is more than…
The Fiscal Times
Trump’s Hard Truth for the GOP: Conservatism Doesn’t Matter
The Fiscal Times mentions Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and costs of federal regulations. An explosion of regulatory activity at the…
Western Journalism
The Crushing Cost Of Complying With Government
Mike Huckabee mentions Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations for Western Journalism. One of the arguments I’ve…
Blog
The Barack Obama Regulatory State Towers over that of Bush
A glance at the overall count of rules and regulations leads one to suppose regulatory burdens are decreasing. After all, since Obama took office the…
Study
Ten Thousand Commandments 2016
Ten Thousand Commandments is the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual survey of the size, scope and cost of federal regulations, and how they affect American consumers, businesses,…
Investor's Business Daily
Federal Regulations Now Cost Almost $1.9 Trillion, Study Finds
Investor's Business Daily reports on Clyde Wayne Crews's annual analysis on the costs of regulations. CEI’s latest “10,000 Commandments” adds up the total…
Washington Examiner
Cost of regulations under Obama reach $1.9 trillion, $14,842 ‘hidden tax’ on every family
The Washington Examiner reports on Clyde Wayne Crews's annual analysis on the costs of regulation. The annual "Ten Thousand Commandments" report from the…
Fox News
Report: Federal regulations costing US $1.9T annually
Fox News reports on Clyde Wayne Crews's annual report on the costs of federal regulations. The annual Ten Thousand Commandments report was released…
Daily Caller
Economy Hit With Hidden $1.9 Trillion Tax From Federal Regulations
The Daily Caller reports on Clyde Wayne Crews's annual report on the costs of federal regulation. Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) describes the thousands…
Cato Unbound
The Administrative State’s Irredeemable Devotion to Central Power
Washington Examiner
Shock report: Federal red tape eats 11% GDP, rivals ALL pretax corporate profits
Washington Examiner reports on Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of the federal regulatory state. The annual "Ten Thousand Commandments" report…
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
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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…