by jpitney | Aug 14, 2020 | Bureaucracy, Public Opinion
Last year, Lydia Saad reported at Gallup: Americans are maintaining a mostly positive view of the job each of eight different high-profile federal departments and agencies is doing, out of 13 such entities measured in a new Gallup poll. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS)...
by jpitney | Jan 8, 2020 | Bureaucracy, Technology, Uncategorized
Garrett Johnson and M. Anthony Mills at LegBranch.org: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) serves as Congress’s watchdog and plays a critical role in holding the federal government accountable to the American people. In November, the comptroller general issued...
by jpitney | Jan 4, 2020 | Bureaucracy, Congress, Oversight, Uncategorized
William Yeatman at Cato: Of course, Big Government today is largely coterminous with the administrative state. From 1995 to 2017, the executive branch issued over 92,000 rules, compared to 4,400 laws enacted by Congress. The regulatory agencies behind all this...
by jpitney | Nov 7, 2019 | Bureaucracy, Regulation, Uncategorized
A growing problem: fraudulent comments on regulatory dockets at federal agencies, some using what appear to be stolen identities posted by computers programmed to pile comments onto the dockets. Findings of Fact by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations:...
