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the current pavement princess trends have left me doubting that any more regulation of any kind will happen in the US.

• alistairSH 3y ago
  Not just the pavement princess stuff - Congress is simply doing less period.[1] Through most of the 20th century, 1000+ laws/year was common. Since 2000, that's dropped to <500 laws/year. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_...
  • mensetmanusman 3y ago
    Pages of laws passed is a better metric as the laws have become more bundled due to partisanship.
    • kjkjadksj 3y ago
      Even then, one era might write more tersely than another.
  • kjkjadksj 3y ago
    Hard to measure between eras with the evolution of pork barrel politicking and other recent cultural practices.