March 25, 2025
“I wrote this bill to give government a tool that helps them reduce waste and save
time—and to give job creators and taxpayers a look at just how much Washington could
do to get out of their way and siphon less money from their pockets.”
WASHINGTON – Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) today introduced a bill to streamline the mammoth Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) by using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to identify redundant and
outdated rules. Currently, the CFR is more than 180,000 pages long. In 1950, the federal code was
only about 10,000 pages long.
“As the federal government strives to serve citizens better and at a lower cost to taxpayers,
Congress can help by taking a lesson from Ohio’s work using an AI tool to cut useless and burdensome pieces out of our state code. We estimate that this tool helping experts streamline Ohio’s code saves $44 million and 58,000 manhours over just a decade. I wrote this bill to give government a tool that helps them reduce waste and save time—and to give job creators and taxpayers a look at just how much Washington could do to get out of their way and siphon less money from
their pockets,” said Husted.
Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have co-sponsored the legislation.
Husted’s bill, the Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Streamline the Code of Federal Regulations Act of 2025, is based on the success that Ohio has had using an AI tool to highlight outdated, conflicting or redundant content in the state code. As a result, the state is on the road to shaving 5 million unnecessary words from its 17-million-word code, saving tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and tens of thousands of manhours.
The AI tool would not replace professionals or make automatic cuts. Instead, it would empower them by referring old, repetitive language to the agency that promulgated it so that experts within the agency could review and decide whether to remove that language.
Husted’s bill would give the Administrative Procedure Act an expedited process for undoing burdensome regulations, and it would make sure that the AI tool is used to review the CFR annually. That would help prevent the federal code from ballooning and shrinking in response to shifting political climates.
The bill text is available here.