June 12, 2009 10:32AM 

# There Really Is Nothing that Congress Won’t Make the Federal Government’s Business… 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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… including [a “performance standard” for breast pumps](http://www.washingtonwatch.com/blog/2009/06/12/a-performance-standard-for-breast-pumps/).

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