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Biden’s State of the Union in Five Words: More Spending, Regulation, and Dependency

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Biden’s State of the Union in Five Words: More Spending, Regulation, and Dependency

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/06/2023

Ladies and gentlemen, we can sum up President Joe Biden’s the State of the Union (SOTU) in five words: More spending, regulation, and dependency. That…

Deregulation

Right Sizing the Federal Trade Commission Is Step One

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Right Sizing the Federal Trade Commission Is Step One

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 02/03/2023

As part of regulatory streamlining and administrative state reform efforts, members of the 118th Congress have already reintroduced several prominent pieces of legislation. These include…

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Inventories of Federal Agency Major Rules and Regulations Poised to Rise

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Inventories of Federal Agency Major Rules and Regulations Poised to Rise

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/25/2023

Federal government reports and databases on regulations serve different purposes: The Federal Register details anddepicts the aggregate number of proposed and final rules—both those that…

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Agency Notices in the Federal Register Merit Close Monitoring by Congress

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Agency Notices in the Federal Register Merit Close Monitoring by Congress

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/24/2023

Along with presidential proclamations like executive orders and memoranda (examined recently here) are those of departments and agencies, which are numerous and sweeping. Without…

Deregulation

An Update on Biden Administration Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda

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An Update on Biden Administration Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/23/2023

Executive orders, presidential memoranda, “Fact Sheets,” and other executive proclamations make up a substantial component of what passes for lawmaking in the United States today.

Deregulation

A Rise in Unfunded Mandates on State and Local Governments Could Spur Calls for Regulatory Reform in the 118th Congress

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A Rise in Unfunded Mandates on State and Local Governments Could Spur Calls for Regulatory Reform in the 118th Congress

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/17/2023

The Biden administration’s surge in federal regulations affecting small business will likely to induce some calls for regulatory reform during the 118th Congress. Now…

Deregulation

332 Costliest Rules in the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations

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332 Costliest Rules in the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/11/2023

Every year, federal agencies issue thousands of rules, regulations, and guidance documents, compared to a relative handful of laws passed by Congress.

Deregulation

The Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations Extends “Whole-of-Government” Activism

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The Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations Extends “Whole-of-Government” Activism

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 01/10/2023

The genius of the Progressives in the late 19th century was to preempt or push large sectors of the emerging future (the…

Deregulation

Where Is the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions?

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Where Is the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions?

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/27/2022

Federal budgets are chronically late and always unbalanced, but we do get them eventually. Increasingly, we get them good and hard, as we did…

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Biden Mocks Republicans as “Socialists;” Don’t Prove Him Right on the 2023 Omnibus

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Biden Mocks Republicans as “Socialists;” Don’t Prove Him Right on the 2023 Omnibus

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/20/2022

Several times in recent months, President Joe Biden mocked Republicans who had called his legislative agenda “socialist,” but afterward worked to channel some of the…

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What Republicans Can Do about the Federal Budget Now

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What Republicans Can Do about the Federal Budget Now

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/16/2022

When the new 2023 fiscal year began October 1, Washington had been running a series of trillion-dollar deficits. This year’s Christmastime budget showdown, and the adventures…

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New Unfunded Federal Mandates on State and Local Governments Could Spark Regulatory Reform

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New Unfunded Federal Mandates on State and Local Governments Could Spark Regulatory Reform

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/13/2022

Substantial upticks in final and proposed regulation affecting small business beyond that seen already in the Biden administration appear likelier than not. A…

Deregulation

Quick Observations on NDAA in Light of the Biden “Whole-of-Government” Agenda

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Quick Observations on NDAA in Light of the Biden “Whole-of-Government” Agenda

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/07/2022

Across the board, the Biden administration’s policies call for agencies to “prioritize action on climate change in their policy-making and budget processes, in their…

Deregulation

Setting a Baseline for Proposed Rules Affecting Small Business

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Setting a Baseline for Proposed Rules Affecting Small Business

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/06/2022

In what way are proposed rules affecting small business rising or falling, and should policy makers be on guard? The answer to the second part…

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A Surge in Small Business Burdens May Propel Regulatory Reform

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A Surge in Small Business Burdens May Propel Regulatory Reform

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 12/05/2022

Given heavy post-COVID spending and regulation, sentiments against expanding government have not been as strong as those in favor of Washington’s growth. It remains…

Deregulation

This Thanksgiving Biden Pardons Poultry, Plucks Public with Spending and Regulation

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This Thanksgiving Biden Pardons Poultry, Plucks Public with Spending and Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/21/2022

Another year is flying by, and each time as I await the ever-delayed fall edition of the Unified Agenda of federal regulations I enjoy taking…

Deregulation

Regulation Population Update: Checking in on Code of Federal Regulations Statistics

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Regulation Population Update: Checking in on Code of Federal Regulations Statistics

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/15/2022

In a recent post we noted that, while the online Federal Register database depicts 3,257 final rules for 2021, the 73,000-page Federal Register’s count actually…

Deregulation

The Unfairness of the FTC’s Policy Statement Regarding the Scope of Unfair Methods of Competition

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The Unfairness of the FTC’s Policy Statement Regarding the Scope of Unfair Methods of Competition

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 11/14/2022

The latest in a stream of regulatory dark matter is the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) November 10, 2022 “Policy Statement Regarding the Scope…

Deregulation

Rules and Regulations Increase 45 Percent during Biden Administration

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Rules and Regulations Increase 45 Percent during Biden Administration

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/31/2022

You’ve heard plenty from this quarter on broken disclosure and transparency in the Biden administration, which eliminated the “Deregulatory” designation for rules implanted…

Deregulation

Talking Points on Biden’s “Whole-of-Government” Regulatory Escalations

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Talking Points on Biden’s “Whole-of-Government” Regulatory Escalations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/26/2022

Among much else, the 2022 edition of Ten Thousand Commandments presents a $2 trillion undercount of regulatory costs and showcases the march of rulemaking…

Deregulation

Ten Thousand Commandments 2022 Released

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Ten Thousand Commandments 2022 Released

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
  • 10/26/2022

The 2022 edition of Wayne Crews’s Ten Thousand Commandments report is out now. Now in its 28th year, it has its usual panoply of…

Deregulation

Unmeasured Costs of Regulation are Accelerating under Biden

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Unmeasured Costs of Regulation are Accelerating under Biden

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/12/2022

During a recent Senate hearing on the nomination to head the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)—the…

Deregulation

Questions the 118th Congress Should Ask OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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Questions the 118th Congress Should Ask OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/06/2022

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee recently held a hearing on the nomination of Richard L. Revesz to be Administrator of the…

Deregulation

A One-Pager on an “Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act”

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A One-Pager on an “Abuse-of-Crisis Prevention Act”

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/06/2022

In recent months CEI has presented the case for a “Abuse of Crisis Prevention Act” to counter and prevent the political predation that continues to…

Deregulation

Tackling Unmeasured Government Growth Must be Prioritized in the 118th Congress

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Tackling Unmeasured Government Growth Must be Prioritized in the 118th Congress

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 10/04/2022

Fred L. Smith Jr., the founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, refers to the regulatory state as the least disciplined part of the federal enterprise.

Deregulation

The Problems with the White House Competition Council

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The Problems with the White House Competition Council

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/28/2022

Sometimes seemingly little things slip under the radar that have big implications. One of those this week was the third meeting of President Biden’s…

Deregulation

America Needs an Emergency Declaration to End All Emergency Declarations

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America Needs an Emergency Declaration to End All Emergency Declarations

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/19/2022

Last night President Biden declared on 60 Minutes hat “The pandemic is over.” “If you notice, no one’s wearing masks, everybody seems to…

Deregulation

Many Federal Agency Rules and Guidance Documents are Still Not Properly Reported to Congress and the GAO

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Many Federal Agency Rules and Guidance Documents are Still Not Properly Reported to Congress and the GAO

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/13/2022

A 2014 white paper prepared for the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), “Congressional Review Act: Many Recent Final Rules Were Not Submitted…

Deregulation

Pondering the Paradox of the Paltry Proliferation of Prominent Proposed Rules in the Federal Register

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Pondering the Paradox of the Paltry Proliferation of Prominent Proposed Rules in the Federal Register

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/07/2022

Spending is up, the debt is up, and Republicans keep helping raise the debt ceiling. Armageddon does not result, we have learned. On the…

Deregulation

Threats to Democracy Posed by an Unleashed Administrative State

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Threats to Democracy Posed by an Unleashed Administrative State

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews
  • 09/06/2022

President Joe Biden’s much-covered Independence Hall remarks last week have drawn their share of praise, condemnation, and memes. Prominent was Biden’s easy deployment of…

Deregulation

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