Bush-era regulatory orgy."The Bush administration, philosophically wedded to the idea of smaller government, issued a record-high number of pages of new federal regulations last year," reported the July July: see month. 8th Washington Post. Citing a new report issued by the Cato Institute "Cato" redirects here. For Cato, see Cato. The Institute's stated mission is "to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace" by striving "to achieve , the Post observed that "the Federal Register boasted 75,606 pages of federal regulations in 2002, up from a high of 74,528 pages in 2000, when President Bill Clinton was still in office. The Federal Register's page count offers a crude but useful measurement of the regulatory burden imposed on Americans by executive branch bureaucracies. Predictably, much of the growth in the Bush-era Register is attributed to the administration's homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States initiatives. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Clyde Wayne Crews, author of the Cato study, a recent survey found the regulatory costs to the economy in 2002 amount to $860 billion. |
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