officers whose whole job, full-time job is making sure we are in compliance with federal regulation the government has made the enforcement through state and private parties. host: what is the role of the federal register? in the old days a minute to century, they had the statute tremendously important statue the federal register is not as pages every year. the record is 80,000 pages back in the 1980s family recently broke that record. 100,000 pages of federal regulations. the important thing about that is even though the formally published regulations, federal regulators do so much by an informal number random but understanding that are not published, sort of subtle ways that don t leave any official footprints in the record. just the tip of the iceberg and no one could keep up with all of it geared the big companies hire people whose words and specialty do with regulations in some specific aspect of their business. interview, professor, the growth of bureaucratic state