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The Role of Agency Rulemaking in Federal Administrative Law

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Each year, federal agencies issue around 3,000 final rules, far more than the few hundred laws Congress passes. This means that most 'laws' in the U.S. are actually agency regulations.

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Did you know that most federal laws you encounter—like food safety labels and clean air standards—are not written by Congress but by unelected agency experts? How do these agencies get the power to create rules that affect you every day?