I asked about regulating the volume of televisions, not the commercials that are broadcast. Two very different things,
Yes, right, you did. And no, they are the same thing.
A TV commercial is recorded at Vol 'x'. There isn't some guy in a Control room thinking "Oh, this Ad's volume gets raised by 'y', I better turn that dial now."
And in this instance I don't think its an Over-Reach by Congress. Most of the crap they pass IS, but this is clearly Interstate Commerce and its in their purview to regulate.
And I submit that as long as we agree to allow Congress to regulate things like this, then we have absolutely no chance of ever trimming the Federal Government back down to size. I think we end up giving Congress defacto approval of the massive overspending by ceding them the power to control things like this.
Creeping incrementalism is in large part what has brought us the bloated Gubment we have today at all levels of Government.