‘Just WOW!’ Sen. Mike Lee tweets shocking display of Federal Register, regulations [pic]

Posted at 12:24 pm on January 12, 2014 by Lori Ziganto

WOW indeed. Take a gander at the photo of the 2013 Federal Register and its 80,000 pages of federal regulations via Sen. Lee’s Facebook page:

Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register: 80,000 pages of regulations: https://t.co/EPSsHiFOPr

— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) January 12, 2014

Unreal… "@SenMikeLee: Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register: 80,000 pages of regulations: https://t.co/seo5UdkGQj"

— Another libertarian (@dratpt) January 12, 2014

Powerful visual. RT @SenMikeLee: Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register: 80,000 pages of regulations: https://t.co/xjJhJgs8fe

— Gregg Nunziata (@greggnunziata) January 12, 2014

Yep.

Some excellent comments on fb under your post! @SenMikeLee

— PatienceWright (@CliffJump101) January 12, 2014

Citizens on Twitter also voiced their disbelief, anger and frustration.

@SenMikeLee . The obvious question is : why would any corporation want to do business in this country ? Obama & Reid will never understand

— Steve S (@SteveS2016) January 12, 2014

@SenMikeLee The travesty of Big Government.

— Mike – #FreeMilo (@mickeynu477) January 12, 2014

@SenMikeLee OH GOD! Help us! We need people in DC to realize what hardships coming w/a regulations! I pray for more like you who listen2 us!

— CHERYL ATCHISON (@cheryl42058) January 12, 2014

In a nutshell:

The Founders weep RT @SenMikeLee: Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register: 80,000 pages of regulations: https://t.co/kp06tmFh27

— Anthony France (@tonyfro23) January 12, 2014

And an exit plea to Sen. Lee:

@SenMikeLee keep up the unpopular but critical task of exposing the monster our country has created, the fed bureaucracy

— Mitch Edwards (@digitalski) January 12, 2014

Amen. Keep fighting the good fight, senator.

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