Title: A Simple Overview Of What A Federal Regulation Is And How It Affects You
Headings: A Simple Overview Of What A Federal Regulation Is And How It Affects You
A Simple Overview Of What A Federal Regulation Is And How It Affects You
Content: However often for every federal law that is passed numerous federal “rules” are implemented, often with far greater immediate impact on the organizations and people they have jurisdiction over. For example, during the 114 th Congress from 2015 to 2017 over 329 laws were enacted and 708 resolutions, largely ceremonial, were passed. Compare that however to over 3,378 federal rules in 2015 and over 3,853 in 2016, leading to a ratio of roughly 22 to 1 between laws and rules. And these rules are impactful indeed. For example, the recent net neutrality controversy was completely done through the rulemaking process at the Federal Communications Commission without legislative action. Regulations are essential rules created by agencies, commissions, and departments in the federal government’s executive branch based off of authority granted to it by Congress. This is because Congress understands that in many cases its ability to develop the subject matter expertise, objectivity from politics, and sheer incapacity to handle the workload leads it to create a federal administrative state that regulates sectors as varied as from fishing to derivatives, from communications infrastructure to highway standards. The precise number of administrative agencies is uncertain due to the overlapping nature of many of them, as many agencies exist similar to a Russian matryoshka doll set where one distinct agency technically exists inside another. The number by some views may be as few as a couple of dozen or as much as over 400, with the federal government itself even uncertain over the exact tally. Yet these agencies have enormous impact on our day-to-day lives while Congress often sticks to the larger policy moves and structures.