The Regulatory 'Dark Matter' Beyond Washington, DC Graveyard
Wayne Crews
Competitive Enterprise Institute
November 3, 2026
The clocks have turned back, the days are growing darker, and Washington’s regulatory shadows lengthen. Washington’s policy ghouls are waking up to the fact that some of the ghastliest regulatory chills come not from ordinary notice-and-comment regulations published in the daily
Federal Register and entombed in the 186,000-page
Code of Federal Regulations, but from something murkier and more frightening: federal agency guidance documents.
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