is clyde wayne crews, vice president of policy at competitive enterprise here to talk about the cost of federal regulations. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having us. host: can you talk about the political point of view, and who backs you financially? guest: in 1984, you could categorize us as libertarians. we are nonpartisan. we focus on the regulatory state and budget issues, wars, social issues. we tend to focus on the regulatory enterprise. we treat regulation as a hidden tax. we see what the fiscal budget is and we see what the tax is but we really don't see regulations. the free enterprise system needs to be supported. host: to the idea of regulations, you put out a yearly report, 10,000 commandments looking at regulations what drives this report for you? guest: i studied economics and groups were working on tax and budget. every year you had folks talking about joe biden's budget. we didn't have anything for the regulatory state. i got the idea back in the 1990's to just compile what we could about the federal regulatory state. you can't manage an economy and y

the vice president of policy, clyde wayne cruz. things for your -- crews, thanks for your time. we are going to talk about eviction lap's anne kat alexander joining us. and how kids will fare when they had back-to-school -- when they head back to school with annette anderson. those number stations coming up on “washington journal.” ♪ >> weekends on c-span2 are an intellectual feast peered all day saturday, events and people who explore our nation's past. on sunday, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. learn, discover, explore, weekends on c-span2. ♪ >> "washington journal" continues. host: our next anne kat guest is alexander, eviction lap's talking about evictions and rental assistance. what does the lab do and who backs it? guest: we are a research lab within the department of sociology at princeton. we have researchers from a bunch of different fields. our main product is we have the largest freely available database of eviction rates in the country. but during the pandemic, we also made a couple of other resources available, including a tracker that

the vice president of policy, clyde wayne cruz. things for your -- crews, thanks for your time.t: we are going to talk about eviction lap's anne kat alexander joining us. and how kids will fare when they had back-to-school -- when they head back to school with annette anderson. those number stations coming up on “washington journal.” ♪ >> weekends on c-span2 are an intellectual feast peered all day saturday, events and people who explore our nation's past. on sunday, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. learn, discover, explore, weekends on c-span2. ♪ >> "washington journal" continues. host: our next anne kat guest is alexander, eviction lap's talking about evictions and rental assistance. what does the lab do and who backs it? guest: we are a research lab within the department of sociology at princeton. we have researchers from a bunch of different fields. our main product is we have the largest freely available database of eviction rates in the country. but during the pandemic, we also made a couple of other resources available, including a tracker th

is clyde wayne crews, vice president of policy at competitive enterprise here to talk about the cost of federal regulations. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having us. host: can you talk about the political point of view, and who backs you financially? guest: in 1984, you could categorize us as libertarians. we are nonpartisan.