This morning, the Federal Register stood
at 68,980 pages. It’s the daily depository of all federal regulations proposed
and final. It is our unfortunate Principia
Regulatica. Next week, the Register is
quite likely to surpass 70,000 pages. It’s not even December yet. At year-end
2012, the Federal Register topped out at 78,961. That wasn’t quite a record, it was
the fourth-highest page count ever. The
two years before that, the Register broke 81,000 pages, which were the highest
levels ever. All but one of the four highest
years have occurred under President Barack Obama. It’s just mid-November, so
we could have another record, or at least near-record, year in 2013. You can see a rundown of
historical Federal Register page
counts here, if you dare.
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