Jerry Brito was quoted in the Nov. 12 edition of Politico in a story about midnight regulations. Read the article here.

Jerry Brito, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, closely follows midnight regulations. He said he would advise the Obama administration to package all of the regulations it wants overturned into one large vehicle to be voted up or down.

"That would solve the collective-action problem, and it solves the pet-project problem. It would sort of limit special pleading," he said, noting that each new regulation benefits someone specific who will fight hard to keep it. Lumping them together dissipates that energy. Read the full article here.