Forbes
The March For Science Should Demand Separation of Science And State
My second youngest son wanted to head downtown to D.C. for the March for Science. I had to explain to him that’s not quite…
Forbes
The Only Way Trump’s Washington Can Be Smaller In Four Years
There are now several moving and overlapping parts to President Donald Trump’s streamlining, swamp-draining, “deconstruction of the administrative state” agenda. Last week brought Office…
News Release
CEI Responds to FCC Move to Deregulate Broadband
Reversing initiatives it pursued during the Obama administration, the Federal Communications Commission has accelerated its push to deregulate, by voting to ease limits on broadcast…
Newsmax
‘It’s About Bloody Time’ Someone Cuts Excessive Government Regulation
Newsmax highlights the cost of regulation from Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandments report. The Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates that the total cost of…
Blog
Two Potential Outcomes for the Office of American Innovation
Yesterday the White House announced the launch of an Office of American Innovation. This is the latest of several moving and overlapping parts to President Trump’s…
Fortune
Regulations Cost U.S. Business More Than Canada’s GDP
President Donald Trump’s administration has been busy issuing a flurry of executive orders intended to reduce regulatory burdens on businesses that keep them from adding…
News Release
Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness: CEI Releases Updated Inventory of “Regulatory Dark Matter”
Today, the Competitive Enterprise (CEI) released the 2017 update to its comprehensive report Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness: An Inventory of “Regulatory Dark Matter.” This analysis covers…
Forbes
Here’s What Donald Trump And Congress Should Do About Regulatory Dark Matter
It’s becoming too easy for federal agencies to steer private activity without issuing “real” regulations anymore. Instead, we get regulatory dark matter — particularly…
The Wall Street Journal
Trump vs. The Blizzard
The Wall Street Journal cites Wayne Crews’ latest study on Regulatory Dark Matter: He will need every bit of political skill…
The Daily Caller
Agencies Use Regulatory ‘Dark Matter’ To Skirt Trump’s Reforms
The Daily Caller discusses regulatory “Dark Matter” under the new Trump Administration Federal regulatory orders include presidential and agency memoranda, guidance documents, bulletins…
Study
Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness
With regulatory dark matter, there are tens of thousands of documents that agencies can use to circumvent Congress, allowing the federal government to inject itself into…
News Release
CEI Comments on President Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch”
"Today regulation is used as a tool of economic control. It is time to return to agencies bound by law which can serve as a…
Townhall
Those ‘Devastating’ EPA Reductions
Townhall highlights Wayne Crews’ research on the cost of federal regulations. Complying with EPA and other government regulations inflicts staggering costs that reverberate…
E&E News
Conservatives ponder expansion of Congressional Review Act
Washington Post
The administrative state is huge, and it’s only getting bigger
The Washington Post highlights Wayne Crews’s research on the federal regulatory state. Just what White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon meant when…
Washington Examiner
Trump’s economic transformation is only getting started
Washington Examiner highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of federal regulations. One of the main reasons why the Obama economy has limped along, year…
Pittsburgh Tribune
Peeling back Obama’s ‘onion’: It’s going to take time
The Pittsburgh Tribune discusses President Trump’s executive order on regulation with Wayne Crews. Under an executive order by Mr. Trump, every new regulation…
Bloomberg BNA
GOP Races Against Time to Roll Back Clock on EPA, Other Rules
Bloomberg BNA highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated annual cost of federal regulations. Environmental and public interest groups say the campaign to nullify various regulations…
The Hill
GOP searches for new way to cut Obama regs
The Hill discusses Congressional efforts to get rid of major regulations with Wayne Crews. But pressure is mounting from conservative groups for Republicans…
CNBC
CEO confidence at near-record high. Why? Trump’s war on regulation
CNBC highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of federal regulations from his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. Last week President Donald Trump signed an executive…
CNBC
Trump’s deregulation wave may have companies geared up to spend and hire
CNBC highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of federal regulations from his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. In a Friday note, Jefferies Chief Market…
Washington Post
Can Trump win his war on the regulatory state?
The Washington Post discusses the cost of federal regulations with Wayne Crews. Now regulation is pervasive. It touches air and water pollution, pensions,…
Blog
Assessing Prospects for Bipartisan Consensus on Regulatory Reform
The federal government doesn’t merely spend $4 trillion a year, it directs the private sector to spend and otherwise re-purposes enormous resources.
Washington Examiner
Trump about to unleash his fury on the regulatory state
Washington Examiner highlights Wayne Crews’s work to track the number and cost of federal regulations. No one even has a reliable count of…
Forbes
Trump And The Federal Bureaucracy Just Collided — Here’s What Happens Next
Agencies’ rules and regulations surged during Barack Obama’s last year, helping create a Federal Register 20 percent larger than the prior record. Bureaus and…
News Release
Wayne Crews of CEI Responds to President Trump’s Executive Order on Regulations
“Regulations have compounded for decades with very little rollback ever taking place, so President Trump’s executive order requiring agencies to identify two regulations for elimination,…
Reason.com
Trump’s Executive Order on Regulations Is Welcome, But More Is Needed
Reason.com discusses President Trump’s executive order on new regulations with Wayne Crews. Still, rolling back federal regulations in a meaningful way will require…
Foundation for Economic Education
The Epic Failure of the Government Gas Can
Part of living on Earth is mowing its grass and performing outdoor chores. Last International Earth Day, while the Globe held hands and celebrated Gaia…
Wall Street Journal
How the House Will Roll Back Washington’s Rule by Bureaucrat
The Wall Street Journal highlights Wayne Crews’s annual study on the costs of federal regulations. In President Obama’s final year the Federal Register…
Library of Law and Liberty
Regulatory Reform: A Few (Not So) Easy Pieces
Library of Law and Liberty discusses midnight regulations from the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. Yes: you can dismiss REFORM as starry-eyed. It…
Forbes
Donald Trump’s 100 Day Executive Action Agenda
New presidents emphasize 100-day priorities, but president-elect Donald J. Trump likely has a 100-minute agenda. An early post-election action instructed transition managers to “develop…
Newsmax
Trumponomics Differs From Reaganomics
Newsmax highlights Wayne Crews’s study on the decline of federal regulation during the Reagan administration. Deregulation. Pages within the Federal Register, the official daily…
Forbes
Obama’s Legacy: Here’s A Raft Of Executive Actions Trump May Target
It’s president Barack Obama’s last week. Is the American left ready to consider reining in executive power yet? Coming to terms with the bipartisan stake…
The Hill
It’s time to enact regulatory relief for credit unions and consumers
The Hill quotes Wayne Crews’s research on the cost of federal regulations from his annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. The impact of excessive…
Washington Examiner
9.7 billion hours required to complete 1 year of federal paperwork
Washington Examiner speaks with Clyde Wayne Crews on how many hours it took Americans to fill out and compleate federal paperwork in 2015. …
Blog
13,953 Human Lifetimes Spent Annually on Federal Paperwork (2017 Edition)
The burden of federal government paperwork now takes up 9.778 billion hours a year.
Forbes
A CES Takeaway: Don’t Fear Robots And Artificial Intelligence–Fear Politicians
Maroon 5 keeps popping up on my Pandora stations, so artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning still have a ways to go. Even if AI…
InsideSources
Congress Should Get Ready to ‘SCRUB’ Regulatory Rulebooks
InsideSources highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of federal regulations from his annual study. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the cost of complying with…
Investor's Business Daily
Putting An End To Obama’s Economy-Destroying Regulatory Siege
Investor’s Business Daily highlights Wayne Crews’s research on last-minute federal regulations from the Obama administration. As he heads for the exits, Obama is…
Washington Times
Protective press refuses to call President Obama a ‘lame duck’
The Washington Times reports on Wayne Crews’s research on the number of federal regulations issued in 2016. So how many new regulations did…
Forbes
The U.S. Economy In 2017: Welcome Higher Growth
Forbes highlights Wayne Crews’s study on the number of federal regulations passed under the Obama administration. Today, there is less uncertainty in politics.
Blog
The 2017 Unconstitutionality Index: 18 Federal Rules for Every Law Congress Passes
Federal agencies in 2016 issued 18 rules and regulations for every law Congress passed.
Breitbart
Obama Oversees Year of Mass Regulation, Record 97,000 Pages of Red Tape
Breitbart highlights Wayne Crews’s report on the number of regulations passed during the Obama administration. President Barack Obama’s administration has added record levels…
Washington Times
Obama Sets A Record For Red Tape in 2016
The Washington Times discusses regulation under the Obama administration with Clyde Wayne Crews. Clyde Wayne Crews, CEI’s vice president for policy, said Republicans…
Washington Examiner
Obama unleashes 3,853 regs, 18 for every law, record 97,110 pages of red tape
Washington Examiner discusses regulation under the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. The proof that it was an overwhelming year for rules and regulations…
Daily Caller
Agencies Issued 18 Regs For Every Law Congress Passed In 2016
The Daily Caller discusses Wayne Crews’s report comparing the Obama administrations regulations to laws that Congress passed in 2016. Executive branch agencies under…
The Hill
Pruitt’s confirmation as EPA chief essential to restoring balance of power
The Hill highlights Wayne Crews’s calculated cost of regulations. Regulatory overreach is not a new threat to the constitutional separation of powers and…
The Hill
New President, New (Anti-)Red Tape Agenda
Federal regulators issue thousands of regulations every year. Decrees range from the Environmental Protection Agency’s gargantuan Clean Power Plan and “Waters of the United States”…
Forbes
Obama White House Releases Final Cost Of Regulation Report
The day before Christmas Eve, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the 2016 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits…
Forbes
Coal In The Stocking – Obama Regulatory Rulebook Breaks Record By 13,000 Pages
When I was a kid, Dad always told my sister and me that if Santa Claus caught us awake on Christmas Eve, he’d put pepper…
Reason.com
For Trump And Icahn, Experts Say Regulatory Reform Should Be More Than a Numbers Game
Reason.com discusses regulatory reform under the Trump administration with Wayne Crews and Kent Lassman. To get below the surface, Trump’s team could look…
Washington Times
One Obama executive order that makes sense
The Washington Times discusses regulations from the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. In retrospect, it’s easy to surmise that Mr. Obama’s executive order…
The Hill
Trump plots two-for-one assault on Obama regs
The Hill discusses with Wayne Crews a plan from President-elect Donald Trump that would eliminate two regulations for every new rule issued. It’s unclear…
Brietbart
A Better ‘Pledge’: Congress Shall Make No Law
When I think of a “Pledge” I’m reminded of my fraternity days and being hazed and lightly humiliated. House Republicans are offering their “Pledge to…
Brietbart
The Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Choice And The Other National Debt
No matter Mitt Romney’s running-mate candiate selection, cable news saturation of America for a couple days would have been and will be inevitable. Especially when…
Blog
Federal Register Breaks Record by 10,000 Pages
Today standing at 91,642 pages, the Federal Register is 10,000 pages higher than the prior all-time record.
Washington Examiner
Obama legacy: Most red tape in history, 35 days still left
Washington Examiner speaks with Clyde Wayne Crews on this year's record-breaking Federal Register's page count. According to regulation watcher Clyde Wayne Crews of…
Study
First Steps for the Trump Administration: Rein in the Regulatory State
View full document as PDF President-elect Donald Trump has instructed members of his transition team to “develop a list of executive actions…
CNBC
Get ready for Republican rush of regulation rollback
CNBC discusses the Obama era regulations that the Trump administration could get rid of with Wayne Crews. But now, thanks to the Trump's…
Fox News
VIDEO: Obama focusing on regulatory footprint before end of term
Forbes
Donald Trump Promises To Eliminate Two Regulations For Every One Enacted
President elect Donald Trump, in a new video covering the transition and policy for the first 100 days, promises to get rid of regulation on…
The Washington Times
Republicans prepare to repeal regulations as Obama racks up record
The Washington Times discusses a regulatory record set by the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. The president is piling up the red tape…
Forbes
Obama White House Releases Its Final Regulatory Agenda
The White House has published the Fall 2016 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. It’s appearing the weekend before Thanksgiving — yet…
Investor's Business Daily
What’s Really Doable In Trump’s First 100 Days?
Investor's Business Daily discusses rolling back regulation of the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. In the past eight years, Obama has imposed a…
Blog
Obama’s 2016 Federal Register Just Topped Highest Page Count of All Time
Well that didn’t him take long. President Barack Obama’s Federal Register, the daily depository of rules and regulations, added 572 pages today, and stands at…
Washington Examiner
Obama sets new record for regulations, 527 pages in just one day
Washington Examiner discusses the Obama administration's record breaking regulation year with Wayne Crews. President Obama has just set a new record for rules…
Breitbart
Obama Sets Record, Slams Washington with 527 Pages of Regulations
Breitbart discusses the Obama administration's record breaking regulatory year with Wayne Crews. Obama shattered his old record with the November 17 release, according…
The Washington Free Beacon
Obama Breaks Record for Most Pages of Regulations in Single Year
The Washington Free Beacon discusses Obama's regulatory record breaking year with Wayne Crews. Obama broke his previous 2010 record of 81,405 pages worth…
WND
Obama sets new record for regulations: 527 pages in 1 day
WND speaks with Wayne Crews on President Obama's record-breaking regulatory year. President Obama on Thursday set a record for the most pages of…
Forbes
Obama’s Midnight Regulations To Get Increased Scrutiny From Congress And Trump
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and other Republican leadership members just sent a letter to Obama administration regulatory agency heads telling them to…
Wall Street Journal
Reversing Rule by Regulation
President Obama spent his final six years in office—and especially the last two—governing largely by executive fiat. He issued executive orders, and his administrative…
The Wall Street Journal
Reversing Rule by Regulation
President Obama spent his final six years in office—and especially the last two—governing largely by executive fiat. He issued executive orders, and his administrative state…
Blog
Federal Register Tops 80,000 Pages, 3rd Highest Ever Count
Today’s Federal Register added 572 pages, and stands at 80,562 pages for 2016.
Science Magazine
Trump and next Congress could quickly erase scores of major regulations
Science Magazine speaks with Clyde Wayne Crews on recent significant rules that Congress should consider repealing. One conservative analyst, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
Forbes
Donald Trump And The 115th Congress Could Get Rid Of These 140 Obama Regulations
Many observers are weighing in on the rules and regulations that a new Trump administration might be inclined to eliminate. The Hill, for example, compiled…
Blog
Federal Register Hits 4th Highest Ever Count, Will Top 80,000 Pages Tuesday
Yesterday the Federal Register hit its fifth-highest count of 79,380 pages.
Blog
Federal Register Hits 5th Highest Ever Count, Days from All-Time High
We’ve documented here throughout November that the Federal Register is steamrolling through 2016, Obama’s final year.
Forbes
How President-Elect Donald Trump Can Fast-Track Deregulation And Wealth Creation
On this, the day after the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president (yes, he has already updated his Twitter profile), President…
Washington Times
Executive orders, pardons, ‘midnight’ regulations expected as Obama presidency draws to close
The Washington Times discusses the number for federal regulations passed during the Obama administration with Wayne Crews. In 2015, after Republicans won control…
Wall Street Journal
Another Last-Minute Regulation
The Wall Street Journal discusses federal regulations passed during President Obama's final days in office with Wayne Crews. This financial power grab is…
Investor's Business Daily
Memo To The Next President: We Can Grow A Lot Faster
Investor's Business Daily highlights Wayne Crews's annual report on the cost of federal regulations. Dodd-Frank bank reform, the EPA's excessively stringent "Clean Power…
Blog
Federal Register Adds 1,177 Pages, Hits 7th Highest Ever Count
We noted here on November 1 that the Federal Register is on a roll, hitting 76,270 pages, the 8th highest level ever.
Blog
A Federal Register Growth Spurt, Third Day of Record-Breaking Streak
The Federal Register is on a roll. On Friday, it hit 75,314 pages, the 10th highest level of all time, even though more than two…
Washington Times
Obama on pace for a legacy of most red tape
The Washington Times reports on Wayne Crews's blog post on the 2010 Federal Register's page count. The Obama administration is on a course…
Blog
A Monster Federal Register This Halloween
Today, the 2016 Federal Register stands at 75, 670 pages, the 9th highest “yearly” count of all time—but it’s only Halloween.
Washington Examiner
Obama set to break red tape record
Washington Examiner reports on Wayne Crews's report on this year's record breaking Federal Register. President Obama's regulatory freight train is crashing through even…
Forbes
Surging Federal Register Of Regulations Cracks Top 10 Fattest Ever–With 2 Months Still To Go
The federal debt isn’t the only thing doubling every few years. Both presidential candidates have declared they will cut mounting regulatory red tape, particularly for…
Watchdog.org
Candidates’ perennial promises to cut regulations rarely pan out
Watchdog.org discusses ways that the next administration can push for regulatory reform with Wayne Crews. Competitive Enterprise Institute Vice President for Policy Clyde…
Forbes
Republicans and Democrats Unite Against $86 Billion AT&T-Time Warner Merger Deal
In a response to earlier media mergers such as Comcast-NBCUniversal, and in an effort to adapt to a world in which consumers increasingly turn away…
Blog
How a New President Can Roll Back Bureaucracy, Part 13: Establish ‘Office of No’
Implement a “Do Not Regulate” Office to Clarify Economic Liberalization Alternatives to, and Explicit Exit Strategies from, Command and Control Rules.
The Hill
White House Admits it’s Late Again in Releasing Regulatory Report
The Hill reports on how Wayne Crews called out the White House Office of Management and Budget about it's late report on regulations. …
Blog
White House Stalling Regulation Report Until after Election?
Today, Monday, October 17th, marks the latest that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has ever been with its annual draft Report…
The Hill
Group claims White House delaying regs report until after election
The Hill reports on Wayne Crews's blog post on the late White House Office of Management and Budget's report on regulations. In a…
Wall Street Journal
The Regulatory State May Have Met Its Match in Idaho
The Wall Street Journal highlights Wayne Crews's annual report on the size and cost of federal regulations. The problem in Washington, D.C., is…
Washington Examiner
Obama’s regs cost you a MacBook Pro every year
Washington Examiner discusses Wayne Crews's anaylsis on the Obama administration's record setting rule-making pace. With less than 100 days left in his presidency, the…
Forbes
White House Showcases National Plans For Mars Journey, High Technology
President Barack Obama is hosting the White House Frontiers Conference at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. The idea is to “explore the future of innovation,”…
Rare
Barack Obama has imposed more regulations than any other president in history
Rare discusses regulation's record breaking year with Wayne Crews. President Barack Obama is on track to impose more regulations than any other American…
Washington Examiner
Obama legacy: Most red tape, regulations ever
Washington Examiner discusses the Obama administration's published regulations with Wayne Crews. Team Obama crossed the 70,000-page mark this week and is on schedule…
The Hill
One way to reduce regulations? Give states the power to reject them.
The Hill mentions Wayne Crews's annual report calculating the cost of federal regulation on the economy. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute has explained, regulations…
Blog
Federal Register Tops 70,000 Pages, Headed for a Major Record
There’s no measure of regulation worse than counting Federal Register pages. But on the other hand, the bureaucracies aren’t exactly bending over backward to disclose…