1950 - 20 Regulatory Agencies* 13 Volumes in the Code of Federal Regulations.

1970 - 26 Regulatory Agencies** and 73 Volumes in the CFR.

1990 - 32 Regulatory Agencies*** and 170 Volumes in the CFR.

2013 - 36 Regulatory Agencies**** and 235 Volumes CFR.

This is just up through 2013!!! Sauce taken from this guy's video but even if it's close. https://www.mercatus.org/economic-insights/mercatus-original-videos/visualizing-growth-federal-regulation-1950.

"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." - James Madison.

Brilliant as Madison was he didn't anticipate that the voluminous "laws" wouldn't even be drafted by our elected representatives.

• DOL, SEC, Agriculture, Treasury, NLRB, NCUA, FCC, Dept. Interior, RRB, SSA, GSA, VA, FCA, DOD, FDIC, Dept. State, FTC, DOJ, Federal Reserve (not really a govt agency so I don't know about this one), Dept. Commerce.

** HUD, EPA, EEOC, SBA, DOT and Federal Maritime Commission added.

***Dept. Education, Energy, Futures Trading Commission, HHS, Nuclear Regulatory, Consumer Product Safety Commission.

**** Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Homeland Security, FHHA, Copyright Royalty Board.