Yes sounds good… if it works. But wait until it tries to explain the follow-up regulations that twist the underlying laws beyond all recognition and original intent!
The Federal Regulations are brutal.
Anyone who picks up a CFR and tries to understand it will start crying and calling for their mama.
Some of the stuff is so arcane that even a room full of lawyer subject matter experts can’t agree on what it means. Often the meaning is as bizarre as that famous Clinton quote:
“It depends on the what the meaning of is is.”
What makes it even worse is that most of the language applies to stuff that is never or very rarely used, while critical issues faced every day in the agencies is governed by one paragraph which can be interpreted all kinds of different ways.
AI is going to choke on the regulations.
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One big problem is that Congress passes legislation all the time but it takes forever to update the regulations to adjust to new legislation.
At any given time large chunks of the regulations are in conflict with or at least not in full conformance with existing statutes.
New regulations require a bunch of attorneys and agency subject matter experts to draft them—if those folks are busy with other duties then it takes as long as it takes.
Then the draft has to go up the chain of command to senior managers. The problem there is that this is not like a corporation. The senior managers are political appointees who are usually not at all familiar with the gritty details of the regulations. They ask stupid questions, raise irrelevant issues, muddy the waters and generally just delay the process with no particular benefit.
After they sign off the draft regulations go out for public comment. This can take months particularly if there are a lot of comments. Outside attorneys for an industry or other lobbying group bill by the hour while they tear the proposed regulations to shreds. These attorneys often have more expertise on the topic than anybody inside the particular agency. That is why they are paid big bucks. There are thousands of these attorneys working as lobbyists/experts in metro DC.
Back and forth it goes—senior management often has to referee—and then finally the regulations are issued.
It can easily be two years after legislation is enacted.
Meanwhile if the lobbyists still have bones to pick they may take the agency to court and duke it out there.
Then Congress changes the law and the process starts all over again.
(Meanwhile there is a bunch of old junk still in the regulations that was not important enough to waste time trying to delete but just muddies the waters.)
It is a mess.