Midnight regulations is a term for United States federal government regulations created by executive branch agencies in the lame duck period of an outgoing President's administration.
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“But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse”
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