"The best measure of the overall regulatory burden" --Wall Street Journal.
Informing citizens about the hidden tax of government regulation. Since 1993.
Regulatory Dark Matter
Regulation Snapshots
- Total Rules, Major Rules & Small Biz Impacts
- Number of Federal Register Documents Published (1976 to date)
- Public Laws vs Agency Rules by Category
- (aka, the Unconstitutionality Index)
- Inventory of 97 Completed Major Rules, Spring 2024
- Mid-2024 Inventory of 193 active major rules, and 42 long-term ones
- Fall 2023 Inventory of 304 "Section 3(f)(1) Significant" Rules
- Top 20 Federal Register Page Counts
- Inventory: Resolutions of Disapproval Introduced Since Passage of the Congressional Review Act
- The Antitrust Skeptic's Bibliography
- Scope of Regulatory Cost Review
- 2020s: Rules w/ costs & benefits quantified
- 2020s: Rules w/ costs-only quantified
- Origins of rule types (major, significant, etc.)
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What they say ...
"The indispensable Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute."
Wall Street Journal
"As the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Clyde Wayne Crews shows in his invaluable annual survey of the federal regulatory state, we have become the regulation nation almost imperceptibly."
--Niall Ferguson
Wall Street Journal
(Headline) "Trump’s team has detected the ‘dark matter’ of government regulation, meaning you ain’t seen nothing yet."
--Fred Barbash
Washington Post
"This is important work because politicians and the media treat regulation as a largely cost-free public good. Mr. Crews knows better."
--Wall Street Journal
"Since Mr. Obama doesn't want to accurately assess the costs of these rules, we'll rely on Mr. Crews."
Wall Street Journal
--Barrons
"...As you can see, Ten Thousand Commandments is well worth perusing by anyone concerned with the regulatory state and the implications of these rules for citizens and constituents."
--Sen. Rand Paul
--George Will
Washington Post
--Washington Post
“Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute concludes regulatory costs are out of control. He’s right.”
“Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute concludes regulatory costs are out of control. He’s right.”
--The Regulatory Hydra
Investor’s Business Daily
"[The] Competitive Enterprise Institute's Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State shows how the American people suffer when Congress delegates it constitutional power to create laws to unelected federal bureaucrats."
--Ron Paul
--Doug Bandow
The American Spectator
"Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the classic Democracy in America, were born in different times and places. But the French aristocrat and American think tanker have the measure of the federal behemoth in the age of Obama. Writing in 1835, Tocqueville eloquently predicted how it would function, while Crews today supplies in his annual compilation of federal rules and regulations, “10,000 Commandments,” the hard numbers that describe the behemoth's contemporary reach and costs."
Mark Tapscott
--Washington Examiner
