Over the last eight years, the number of flawed, burdensome, or ineffective federal rules and regulations inflicted on the American people has grown at a rapid pace with the Federal Register (the daily journal that contains new regulatory guidance and information) reaching all-time page-count highs. The last eight years produced six of the top seven most aggressive rule-making years on record, and as 2016 came to a close, the Obama Administration added to that number with an avalanche of new mandates in the days and weeks before leaving office.