Meanwhile, the 2016 Federal Register, as of Black Friday, is already nearly 4,000 pages past the all-time record previously set in 2010, with all of December still to go. The midnight rush is on.

On to the data:

Last week, 85 new final regulations were published in the Federal Register, after 59 the previous week.

That's the equivalent of a new regulation every two hours and 27 minutes.

With 3,389 final regulations published so far in 2016, the federal government is on pace to issue 3,732 regulations in 2016. Last year's total was 3,406 regulations.

Last week, 2,292 new pages were added to the Federal Register, after 3,724 pages the previous week.