Midnight Scramblers.

• Author: Lynch, Michael W.
• Position: Brief Article

A pile of pardons wasn't the only stack of unseemly paperwork former president Bill Clinton worked on before leaving office. He also left a pile of "midnight regulations," last-minute additions to the Federal Register. Clinton was vastly prolific in his last three months, adding some 26,000 pages worth of dictates that ranged from creating new federal monuments, regulating the temperature at which eggs must be kept during shipping, and prohibiting companies that get on the wrong side of organized labor from contracting with the federal government. In doing so, the Man from Hope handily topped the recent record, which had been set by Jimmy Carter on his way...