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REGULATION BY THE UNELECTED
Some members of Congress are appalled by the reams of regulations
issued each year by swarms of unelected federal bureaucrats.
Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Sam Brownback (R.-Kan.) are
two of those, and in June they reintroduced their Congressional
Responsibility Act -- which would require Congress to approve
major agency rules and regulations before they become binding.
o While Congress passed and the president signed into law
241 bills last year, federal agencies issued 4,899 rules
and regulations -- 315 more than the previous year and the
second greatest number since 1984.
o At 68,591 pages, last year's Federal Register -- the
depository of federal regulations -- attained heights not
seen since the Carter administration.
o Requiring spending of more than $700 billion annually,
off-budget regulatory costs are now well more than one-
third the level of the entire 1998 federal budget of $1.6
trillion -- and they rival corporate pre-tax profits of
$734 billion.
o Yet in the Office of Management and Budget's 1998 Report
to Congress on regulatory costs and benefits, less than 1
percent of agency final rule documents were reviewed -- a
clear indication, critics say, that the federal government
has no idea whether benefits exceed costs.
Source: Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. (Competitive Enterprise Institute),
"Tyranny of the Unelected Regulators," Washington Times, August
8, 1999.
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