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.
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13398 results for "walking," 16362 results for "Breathing," and 4103 results for "sleeping."
ReplyDeleteWe get the government we deserve.
31 results for "dihydrogen monoxide" ... we pay pencil pushing bureaucrats for this?
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86246 results for "regulations.gov"
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ReplyDeleteAdding 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.
ReplyDelete"It's about time?" Regulations.gov is nine years old.
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