Your freedom was diminished.
Any quick perusal of MSM sites during the last couple of weeks of December 2013 would have you find multiple stories on how “lazy”, “do nothing”, and “unproductive” the US Congress was during 2013. They sent only 65 bills to the President’s desk for him to sign, which is 65 too many formy liking. However, the media thinks that government actually does good things, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Never ones to leave you well enough alone, the federal government’s bureaucrats were busy little beavers during 2013, setting a new record by issuing 3659 new regulations from January 1st through December 31st.
The Obama administration made up for the lack of laws passed in Congress last year, issuing a whopping 3,659 rules regulations, crushing claims that Washington isn’t doing anything.
Only 65 public laws were signed by President Obama in 2013, meaning that his government issued an average of 56 new regulations for every one, a record high ratio, according to the annual analysis by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The surge in regulations has led critics to charge that Congress is now a bystander to federal regulatory agencies.
Politicians like it when the ideologues get their thang on writing “Plus 1’s”. There are no votes on record to have to face tough questions about during the next election cycle, and less time writing complicated laws no one else in Congress is going to bother reading anyway means more time to rub them elbows.
the 65 number is deceiving. Congress now packs each law will multiple separate laws. The # of pages of law passed per year continues an upward trend.
For example, The Affordable Care Act of 2009 includes the The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009. Two related pieces of legislation, defined as separate laws in the code, but were passed as one piece of legislation.
Each continuing resolution or omnibus spending bill would have been many separate bills pre-Gingrich.