Federal Register Tops 50,000 Pages, Yet Obama's Report to Congress Is MIA
The annual Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities is quite overdue.
It is the federal government’s only report disclosing overall costs and benefits of federal regulations.
How is it that the federal government meanwhile has no trouble issuing new regulations? Today the Federal Register topped 50,000 pages for 2016. That is a record pace.
Last year’s 2015 Draft [1], appearing on October 16, was the latest ever, as we’ll see in a moment in the chart below. The Final 2015 report [2] didn’t appear until March 10, 2016.
This is 2016, and Monday it will be August. Where is the Draft 2016 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations in this “most transparent administration in history [3]”?
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