July 17, 2007 11:28AM 

# Felines for Federalism 

By [Chris Edwards](https://www.cato.org/people/chris-edwards) 

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I suppose when a federal agency has 105,000 employees, it has a lot of folks just sitting around wondering what they can regulate next. For the [U.S. Department of Agriculture](https://www.cato.org/downsizing/agriculture/index.html), it’s [six-toed cats in Key West](http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070717/us/usreport_usa_hemingway_cats_dc_1).

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