Brownstone Institute
The Four Sins of ‘Thawteffery’
CEI’s Wayne Crews Ten Thousand Commandments was cited by the Brownstone Institute in an article: Such coercion stands behind the tax revenue, the money…
E & E News
Murky deadline looms for Biden’s regs
CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews is cited in E & E News on a murkey deadline for Biden regulations: The Biden administration “might not be so…
Wall Street Journal
Where the Cheering Stopped
CEI’s Wayne Crews is cited in The Wall Street Journal on the State of the Union address: Budgets Are About PrioritiesWayne Crews writes for the Competitive…
Washington Examiner
Swamp dishes most regulations in nearly three decades
CEI’s Wayne Crews is cited in the Washington Examiner about an uptick in regulations out of Washington D.C.: “The upshot here is that 46…
Washington Examiner
Swamp’s hidden regulations cost $50,000 per employee, lost investment
CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews is cited on Washington Examiner about hidden regulation cost: “The choices made 100 years ago in creating and erecting the administrative…
E&E
Want to talk rules? The White House just made it easier.
Wayne Crews is cited on E&E about government rule making: Wayne Crews, a fellow in regulatory studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think…
IREF Europe
“THE TEN THOUSAND COMMANDMENTS” AND THE COST OF NORMATIVE INFLATION
American Radio Journal
Wayne Crews with Ten Thousand Commandments
CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews joins the American Radio Journal to discuss Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State. Listen to…
Sound Cloud
Wayne Crews Are Federal Regulations Costing Taxpayers And Companies Almost $2 Trillion Per Year
The Lars Larson Show is joined by CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews on November 30th, 2023.
The Daily Signal
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s How Much Regulations Cost Average American Family—and How Biden Is Making It Worse
“American households pay at least $14,000 in hidden regulatory costs every year,” Wayne Crews, the Fred L. Smith fellow in regulatory studies at the institute,…
Washington Times
Biden’s battle on climate and social programs escalates red tape
Rules on everything from new safety measures for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic to new standards for grades of canned baked beans have…
Citation
Red tape burden surges to 10.34 billion hours, 15,000 lifetimes
In his new report on red tape, Clyde Wayne Crews, the regulatory expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the bulk of…
Washington Examiner
Resistance grows to Biden hiding costly, choking regulations
Washington Examiner cites Clyde Wayne Crews on costly regulations: Two proposed changes have been singled out by groups including the Competitive Enterprise Institute and former…
Washington Examiner
Industry groups fear new Biden regulatory changes could hobble growth
Washington Examiner cites CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews economic growth hindrance: Even under the current $100 million threshold, the Biden administration has released a torrent…
Wall Street Journal
Regulators Gone Wild
Wall Street Journal cites CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews on overabundance of regulation: According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Clyde Wayne Crews, the Biden Administration has 297…
Issues & Insights
Biden Unleashes The Regulatory Kraken — And There’s No Land In Sight
As the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Clyde Wayne Crews put it recently, “President Biden is leading an unprecedented expansion of the administrative state. In two…
Reason
Despite SCOTUS Ruling Limiting Its Authority, EPA Tries To Unilaterally Regulate Carbon Emissions Again
CEI’s Daren Bakst and Wayne Crews are cited in Reason about the EPA trying to regulate carbon emissions despite SCOTUS rule: “Biden’s new move…
Washington Examiner
Sen. Mike Braun cuts path to slow Biden’s ‘noxious’ agenda
It drew applause from deregulation advocates. “Sen. Braun’s efforts to strike Biden’s regulatory excesses are vital,” said Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. of the…
Wall Street Journal
Biden’s Regulatory Deluge
Regulatory costs to the economy are now reckoned to be at least $2 trillion, or roughly 8% of U.S. gross domestic product in…
Larry Kudlow Show
RADIO: CEI’s Wayne Crews Joins The Larry Kudlow Show
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies Wayne Crews joined The Larry Kudlow Show to discuss the hidden tax of federal regulations.
Reason
FBI Reports Dubious ‘Trend’ of Rideshare Driver Kidnappings
“Fund managers who handle retirement accounts through the EBSA are being told to consider climate change and other environmental, social, and governance (ESG)…
Issues & Insights
Voters who think that putting Republicans in control of the House and Senate will make a big difference for the economy are in for a rude awakening. President Joe Biden has unleashed the regulatory Leviathan. Lawmakers will be hard-pressed to stop the damage.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) just this morning released its hugely valuable report called “10,000 Commandments,” which is a compendium of the regulatory state. In it,…
Federal News Network
A snapshot of federal rule-making and its wide scope
Federal News Network cites CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews on federal rule making: Rulemaking is one of the most widespread activities in the federal government.
The Washington Examiner
Warning: Biden’s Costly Overregulation Turns ‘Extreme’
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on President Biden’s Trucking Action Plan and Vice President Kamala Harris’ federal…
The Washington Examiner
Biden Regulating ‘Wokeness’ and Socialism into Federal Policy: Expert
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews’ report on Biden’s government equity agenda: “Biden’s ‘whole of government’ equity agenda takes today’s…
The Washington Examiner
Stymied in Senate, Biden Sets Off ‘Big Bang’ of Regulations
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on President Biden’s increased regulatory program proposals: In opening the regulations spigot, he is…
Forbes
State & Federal Officials Move to Regulate & Even Ban PFAS Chemicals, But Many Wonder if that Makes Sense
Forbes cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the cost of federal regulations: Federal regulations cost employers, workers, and consumers nearly…
The Washington Examiner
Regulatory Costs Soar as Biden Adds Rules Faster Than Predecessors
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on Biden Administration regulations: In a broader sense, Wayne Crews, vice president for policy…
The Economist
Enthusiasm for Regulation, Often in Areas Like the Climate, Shows No Sign of Flagging
The Economist cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on regulatory guidance: Many new instructions come not as formal rules but in ancillary guidance,…
The Washington Examiner
Zogby: US Overwhelmingly Wants Less Federal Meddling
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on President Biden and regulations: The results were stunning, especially coming at a time…
The Washington Examiner
Biden Ramps up Costly Regulations and Hidden Taxes
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on President Biden and regulations: “Halloween may be over but Tyrannosaurus Regs is back…
FEE
Households Face Up to $14,000 in ‘Hidden’ Federal Taxes Every Year, New Report Reveals
FEE cites CEI’s 10KC study by Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews: The fiscally-conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) just released its annual “Ten Thousand…
The Washington Times
Trump-Dependent Media Feels the Pinch
The Washington Times cites CEI’s 10KC study by Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews: The Competitive Enterprise Institute will issue on Wednesday its annual…
The Wall Street Journal
Flying the Politically Correct Skies
The Wall Street Journal cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on Biden’s federal budget: Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute …
E&E News
Dems Prep Vote To Overturn Trump-Era Methane Rule
E&E News cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the Congressional Review Act: Deploying the CRA is not even a strategy historically embraced…
National Affairs
Putting Regulators on a Budget
National Affairs cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the cost of regulation: Separately, in 2015, regulatory analyst Clyde Wayne Crews from the…
Politico
Biden Won’t Release White House Virtual Visitor Logs
Politico cites CEI’s 2020 edition of 10 Thousand Commandments by Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews: In addition, Republican lawmakers have…
The Western Journal
Trump Program Saved $160 Billion, Cut Regulatory Costs 90% – Biden Killed It
The Western Journal cites Vice President for Policy on the impact of President Biden’s regulatory actions: “I don’t think progressives think regulations have any…
Fox Business
Biden on Day 1 Scrapped Trump Rule that Helped US Save $160 Billion: Report
Fox Business cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on regulations and the Biden administration: But Clyde Wayne Crews, a vice president with the…
The Washington Times
Biden Overturned Trump Deregulation Rule That Saved U.S. $160 Billion: Analysis
The Washington Times cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on regulations and the Biden administration: “Biden has jettisoned … most of what Trump…
Las Vegas Review Journal
EDITORIAL: Regulatory benefits that are ‘impossible’ to quantify
The Las Vegas Review Journal cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews and CEI’s “10 Thousand Commandments”: Needless to say, President Joe Biden and…
Reason
Biden Tells Federal Bureaucrats To Approve Regulations With Benefits That Are ‘Impossible To Quantify’
Reason cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on President Biden’s latest directive: “The aim is to put weight on the scales of whether…
Reason
Biden Tells Federal Bureaucrats To Approve Regulations With Benefits That Are ‘Impossible To Quantify’
Reason cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the regulatory state under President Biden: “The aim is to put weight on the scales…
World Net Daily
Overlooked Biden Executive Order Could Have Greatest Harmful Impact
World Net Daily cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on regulatory reform: Clyde Wayne Crews, a regulation expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Citation
Let Them Learn
The Wall Street Journal cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on Biden’s “Modernizing Regulatory Review” plan: In the meantime, Wayne Crews at the Competitive…
E&E News
Biden Signals ‘New Direction’ On Regulations
E&E News cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on President Biden’s regulatory review process: Wayne Crews, an analyst at the conservative Competitive Enterprise…
Washington Examiner
Biden Poised to Be the Biggest Regulator in History
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on regulatory reform: “Biden has signaled in all areas that the Trump regime, such…
Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Already Won
Wall Street Journal cites Senior Fellow Clyde Wayne Crews on federal red tape. From the start of his presidency, Mr. Trump paired tax reform with aggressive…
The Washington Examiner
New Report Reveals the Crushing Costs that Federal Regulations Impose on Average Households
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on CEI’s 2020 10kc report: Free market conservatives and libertarians well understand the…
Reason
The Pandemic Is a Reminder That Many Regulations Are Both Costly and Unnecessary
Reason cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on CEI’s 2020 10kc report: Instead, to calculate the cost of these sorts of rules,…
The Washington Times
Trump Signs Broad Order to Speed Deregulation and Relax Red Tape for Economic Recovery
The Washington Times cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on deregulation by President Trump: Wayne Crews, vice president for policy at the…
The Washington Times
Trump Behind on Promise to Cut Two Rules for Every New One, Study Shows
The Washington Times cites CEI’s 10kc report: The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual report on the cost of regulations found that Mr. Trump cut regulations…
The Federalist
New Report Exposes Onerous Overregulation From The Administrative State
The Federalist cites CEI’s 10kc report: A new report from the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) offers new insight into just how much unelected…
Washington Examiner
Trump: Slashing Regulations Boosted Economy More Than Tax Cuts
Washington Examiner cites senior fellow Clyde Wayne Crews on Trump-era regulations: What’s more, CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews reported that the administration issued…
The Washington Examiner
Unconstitutionality Index: Swamp Imposed 20 Regulations for Every Law over Decade
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on the “Unconstitutionality Index.” In detailing his “Unconstitutionality Index,” Clyde…
The Epoch Times
Sen. Hawley, Blackburn Propose Massive Relocation of Federal Departments, Agencies
The Epoch Times cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on Ten Thousand Commandments: Exactly how many federal departments, independent agencies,…
Forbes
New Trump Orders: Guidance Should Be a Shield, Not a Sword
Forbes cites Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on regulatory dark matter: These actions are the latest attempt to ensure…
Reason
Democrats Join Trump in Seeking Balance by Policing Speech
Reason cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on free speech and Section 230: Removing Section 230 protection from platforms that bureaucrats consider…
National Review
The Trump Economy
The National Review cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the 10kc report. As Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Reason
Will Trump’s Authoritarian Impulses Derail His Deregulatory Successes?
Reason cites Vice President of Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on CEI’s “Ten Thousand Commandments” report. But there are warning signs that…
The Washington Times
Trump ‘Administrative State’ Rollback Fails To Lower $2 Trillion Annual Cost Of Regulation
The Washington Times cites Vice President of Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on the cost of federal regulations. Federal regulations were costing…
Fox Business
Trump Early Efforts on Deregulation Could Pave Way For Increased Executive Activity: Study
Fox Business cites Vice President of Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on the Trump Administration’s record on deregulation. While he…
The Washington Examiner
‘Swamp’ Thwarts Trump With $1.9T ‘Hidden Tax’ In Regulations
The Washington Examiner cites Vice President of Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on CEI’s “Ten Thousand Commandments” report. The Competitive Enterprise Institute said…
The Hill
Co-Founder’s Call to Break Up Facebook Energizes Its Critics
The Hill cites Vice President of Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on the possible regulation of Facebook. Wayne Crews, the vice president…
The Washington Times
Burdensome Federal Regulations Are ‘Hidden Tax’ Which Cost $1.9 Trillion: Study
The Washington Times cites Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on CEI’s “Ten Thousand Commandments” report. The national debt is not the…
Daily Caller
Conservatives Wrestle over How to Wallop Big Tech as Facebook Conducts Major Content Purge
The Daily Caller cites Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on antitrust regulations. “It’s not a civil rights issue at the…
The Hill
Congressional Review Act Rises Again!
The Hill cited Vice President for Policy and a Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on regulatory dark matter. This problem increases considerably when you…
The Cato Institute
Bloomberg Unwittingly Vindicates Stigler
The Cato Institute cited Vice President for Policy and a Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on the Trump administration and regulatory reform. Thankfully, we…
The Daily Signal
VIDEO: Hope for an Overregulated Nation
Senior Fellow Wayne Crews joined “The Bill Walton Show” on the Daily Signal to explain how to return the U.S. to the path of greater…
The Washington Free Beacon
Trump’s Deregulatory Agenda Still Rolling, but Pace Slows Slightly
The Washington Free Beacon cited CEI’s report by Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on President Trump’s deregulatory efforts. While the number of…
The Washington Examiner
Trump Issues Fewest Regulations Ever, ‘Unconstitutionality Index’ Reaches Record Low
The Washington Examiner cited Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on President Trump and regulatory reform. “At year-end 2018, how is President…
AEI
The Supreme Court May Begin to Tame the Administrative State
AEI cited Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on administrative rulemaking. In addition, Chevron helped enable a vast expansion of administrative rule making. Since 1993,…
The Wall Street Journal
The Supreme Court May Begin to Tame the Administrative State
The Wall Street Journal cited Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on the Supreme Court’s decision to review deference to the administrative state.
Reason
Trump Brags About Deregulation, But A Huge Number Of His Deregulatory Actions Were Started Under Obama
Reason cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on Trump deregulation policy. President Donald Trump likes to brag about his record of cutting regulations.
CNS News
Economy Grew By Healthy 3.5% In Most Recent Quarter
CNS News cite CEI’s Senior Fellow Wayne Crews on Trump deregulation. As Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute noted in 2017, Trump has…
Townhall
Trump Regulatory Reform Saved Taxpayers $23 Billion
Townhall cited CEI’s Senior Fellow Clyde Wayne Crews’s “Ten Thousand Commandments 2018” annual report. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) puts out a report…
LifeZette
Trump Urged To Expose Bureaucrats’ ‘Regulatory Dark Matter’
LifeZette cited CEI’s Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Clyde Wayne Crews on regulatory dark matter. President Donald Trump has slashed a…
Government Executive
Trump Deregulatory Effort May Just Be Getting Started
Government Executive cited CEI’s Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on Trump administration deregulation. The topic is of great interest to the conservative…
Citation
CEI Commends House for Passage of GOOD Act to Rein in Regulatory Overreach
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) commends the U.S. House of Representatives and Congressman Mark Walker for passage of the Guidance Out Of Darkness (GOOD) Act,…
Foreign Affairs
MIL-OSI USA: The House Passes Walker’s GOOD Act To Help NC Employers And Force Federal Agencies To Make Regulatory Guidance Transparent
Foreign Affairs cited CEI’s Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Clyde Wane Crews on the GOOD Act. The GOOD Act has received praise from Competitive Enterprise…
The Washington Times
Eliminating ‘Most Problematic’ Federal Regulations Saves Taxpayers $1.3 Billion This Year
The Washington Times cited CEI’s Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews on Trump’s federal regulation savings. Clyde Wayne Crews, vice president for policy at…
Investor's Business Daily
Deregulation Nation: President Trump Cuts Regulations at Record Rate
Investor’s Business Daily cited Senior Fellow Clyde Wayne Crews on Ten Thousand Commandments. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute noted earlier this year…
The Washington Post
Has the Trump Administration Repealed 22 Regulations for Each New One?
The Washington Post Fact Checker cited Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow Clyde Wayne Crews on regulatory reform. Clyde Wayne Crews of the…
Saudi Gazette
High-Stakes Ruling Awaited On AT&T-Time Warner Merger
Saudi Gazette cited Clyde Wayne Crews on the inadequacy of government for responding to growing competition against traditional media outlets, which has been exacerbated by…
The Wall Street Journal
Trump, the Six Billion Dollar Man*
The Wall Street Journal cited CEI’s Clyde Wayne Crews regarding the Trump administration’s regulatory reform efforts. History shows that when a new President…
The Washington Times
Republicans Giving the Boot to Obama’s Onerous Regulations
The Washington Times cited the Clyde Wayne Crews on the overextension of government regulation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s findings of the extreme cost of…
The Hill
The Flip Side of Tax Reform: Federal Spending Reform
The Hill cited Clyde Wayne Crews on the annual cost which federal regulations impose on Americans, the cost of which amounts to ten percent of our…
Investor's Business Daily
Spending Reform: The Flip Side of Federal Tax Reform
IBD cited Wayne Crews on just how much of a tremendous burden is being imposed upon the national economy by federal regulations. We…
Reason Magazine
Trump’s Regulatory Slowdown Is Real
Reason Magazine discusses the deregulatory actions of the Trump administration and Ten Thousand Commandments, CEI’s assessment of the size of the regulatory state.
Washington Examiner
Here’s a Reason for Libertarians to Love Trump
The Washington Examiner profiles Ten Thousand Commandments: CEI’s vice president for policy, Clyde Wayne Crews, cheered the current administration for cutting back…
The Lars Larson Show
AUDIO: Wayne Crews Discusses Mark Zuckerberg’s Testimony In Congress With Lars Larson
Wayne Crews, Vice President for Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, joined the Lars Larson program to discuss Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent testimony before…
The Boston Globe
Is it Time to Lay Down the Law on the Internet?
The Boston Globe discusses the renewed interest in internet privacy in the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal. But Wayne Crews, vice…
Reason Magazine
Trump Is ‘Destroying’ Regulations
Reason Magazine talks to Wayne Crews about the Trump administration’s commitment to regulatory reform: The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a D.C.-based free-market think…
Investor's Business Daily
Trump’s Deregulation Binge Is Lightening The Economy’s Load
Investor’s Business Daily cited Clyde Wayne Crews on the extent of the impact which the Trump adminstration’s deregulatory stance is having on the nation’s economy. …
The Hill
Conservatives Packed 2017 With Victories — Push 2018 Even Further
The Hill cited Wayne Crews on the financial impact of overregulation by the Obama administration upon the United States economy. With a wild…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Under the radar, Trump, Republicans are in frontal assault of Obama-era regulations
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch cited Wayne Crews as well as the Competitive Enterprise Institute on the effects of President Trump’s reforms and how mcuh overregulation…
The Daily Caller
There’s a Newfound Hatred of Silicon Valley
The Daily Caller discusses opinions on Silicon Valley with Wayne Crews. For quite a long time, Silicon Valley was the angelic, do-no-wrong industry, adamantly…
Reason
Trump at 9 Months: ‘The Least Regulatory President of All’
Reason cited Wayne Crews about the deregulatory success that has defined the Trump administration thus far. The most underreported story (except here at…
The Washington Times
Conservatives Fear More Left-Leaning Media With AT&T, Time Warner Merger
The Washington Times quotes Wayne Crews on the traditional importance of deregulation in communications for conservative policy and how traditional media conglomerates are losing influence…
The Hill
Media Distracts and Downplays Trump’s 2018 Agenda
Writing for The Hill, Corey R. Lewandowski cites Wayne Crews on Trump’s regulatory numbers. The media loves to talk about scandals, Russia, and …