This is disgusting - from the Competitive Enterprise Institute:
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 81,640 pages for 2016.
This is the all-time record. Ever.
Obama also held the prior record, 81,405 pages in 2010.
The 80,000 page mark has been passed in only three previous years (2010, 2011, 2015).
The chart below shows the highest 15 Federal Register Federal Register page counts. Note that Obama holds seven of the 10 highest-ever tallies.
Yet nearly a month and a half remain in this record-setting year.
No one knows what the future holds, but at a pace of well over 1,000 pages weekly, the Federal Register could easily top 90,000 pages this year.
The article also looks at a low number:
The new president-elect Donald Trump could take a page from President Reagan, who brought page counts down from Carter’s 73,258 to as low as. 44,812.
We don’t need a pen and phone, we need a meat axe.
Let us hope so - the first link (this one) brings up a PDF file of all 660 (572 pages plus table of contents and index) of the Federal Register for just today - November 17th. Our government is growing at this rate - several hundred pages of new regulations each and every day. Nonstop.
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