Regulations

One of the less heralded successes of the Trump administration has been rolling back the burdens of federal regulations.

We're not big fans of Congress telling states what they can and cannot do. But there are times when state and local governments greatly exceed their own authority, and need congressional push back.

Quietly, the Trump administration appears to be carrying out a key campaign promise: slowing down, and rolling back, the wave of burdensome federal regulations.

Donald Trump's executive order putting the brakes on new regulations had a couple of new wrinkles that similar orders issued by previous presidents did not have:

The Obama administration outdid itself in 2016, passing more regulations than any of its predecessors, and adding more than 90,000 pages to the Federal Register.

As expected, the Obama adminisration is planning to unleash a tidal wave of new rules and regulations before they leave the halls of power:

In the nearby video, Donald Trump outlines the actions he will take on his first day in the Oval Office. One item that caught our eye:

The Congressional Research Service has assembled a report on a unique congressional power that would allow the worthies to overturn certain federal agency rules by majority vote.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is out with its 2016 edition of "Ten Thousand Commandments," its look at how regulations are stifling, if not outright strangling, the American economy.  Among this year's findings: