Tuesday, February 07, 2012

At last: Regulations.gov website makes it easy to track the millions of pages of edicts levied upon us by our federal overlords

It's about time the federal government gave us Regulations.gov, a helpful Internet portal that indexes the hundreds of thousands of pages of laws, regulations, and dictates that we're expected to know.

Suffice it to say that Regulations.gov uses a powerful, clustered set of web, application, database and storage servers that require enough electricity to power all three of Al Gore's mansions.

Thankfully, this new portal makes it straightforward to find out that:

Tomatoes are governed by 7,789 existing and proposed regulatory documents.
Window cleaning is regulated by 5,579 documents.
Light bulbs, by 4,038 documents.
Dry peas, by 1,775 documents.
Lint filters, by 439 documents.
Home gardens, by 436 documents.
Lemonade, by 175 documents.

Give it a try and let us know in the comments what you find.

Word has it that Regulations.gov tried to add a Twitter feed, but all of the Obama administration's new bureaucracies were producing so many new regs that it melted Twitter down.


Related: A Child's First Book of Government Regulations.


Hat tip: Brad.

10 comments:

Bob H said...

"Figs" 145

The_Bad said...

I couldn't resist...

"Arugula" yields 1,136 results.

Shayne said...

13398 results for "walking," 16362 results for "Breathing," and 4103 results for "sleeping."

We get the government we deserve.

OhMy said...

31 results for "dihydrogen monoxide" ... we pay pencil pushing bureaucrats for this?

sabana said...

nice post, i hope in my country to..

GregMan said...

52624 results for "dog", 3883 results for "bread", but only 1204 results for "plutonium".

Nice to see the gummint has it's priorities straight.

azHolmesM said...

86246 results for "regulations.gov"

Josh said...

4140 results for "feces" although they all reek of it!

Anonymous said...

Adding double quotes around the phrase window cleaning reduces the result to 168 documents, so I suspect you were getting all documents containing the word window or the word cleaning. Also, many of those results were not regulation documents, but comments on the regulations.

k-mad said...

"It's about time?" Regulations.gov is nine years old.