The shelves of Bill Posey’s Washington office are adorned by model space shuttles, a reminder of the time he spent working on the Apollo space program through contractor McDonnell Douglas. But the area is more spacious than it has been in years.

That’s because the Florida Republican’s office wheeled out a stack of proposed regulations, totaling around 70 linear feet, that took years to collect. Printed each day by the Federal Register, the publications represent every major rule proposed by unelected regulators in Washington. Most in Congress throw them out. Posey collected them for five years, from April 2011 until April 2016. He said they needed to go because of the prospective safety hazard, but that they represented one of the biggest reasons he ran for Congress.