" In fact, a mere 535 elected senators and representatives can hardly become acquainted with, much less even read, some 175,496 pages of the Federal Register or monitor 2.7 million employees—without the enlistment of more bureaucrats to monitor bureaucrats.12 "

― Victor Davis Hanson , The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America