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How Administrative Agencies Create Binding Regulations

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Between 1946 and 2020, agencies issued over 100,000 final rules, yet Congress itself passes only a few hundred laws per year. The Federal Register, where these rules are published, is the daily newspaper of the administrative state.

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Congress passes laws, but it doesn't actually set most rules that affect your daily life—unelected bureaucrats do. How is that legal?