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Shedding light on midnight regulations

The flurry of activity in the nation's capital in January involved far more than inaugural festivities. In the final hours of the Clinton presidency, administrative agencies were scurrying to get regulations finalized and printed in the Federal Register before the new administration took over. Between Wednesday and Friday of inauguration week, three double volumes of the Federal Register were printed with 2,568 pages of regulations. On Inauguration Day, in one of his first official acts, President Bush responded by placing a freeze on all new and pending regulations. Still, another 944 pages of regulations were published in yet another double volume Federal Register the following Monday.

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