Of course, the problem with "legislating from the White House" is that all those rules and regulations can be undone by the next administration. And, as Kimberley Strassel points out in a Wall Street Journal Opinion piece today, a little know tool within the Congressional Review Act could allow Republicans to wipe out 8 full years of Obama's liberal agenda, with a simple majority vote, all while preventing similar rules from every being recreated by future administrations.
Everyone right now is talking about the CRA, which gives Congress the ability, with simple majorities, to overrule regulations from the executive branch. Republicans are eager to use the law, and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy this week unveiled the first five Obama rules that his chamber intends to nix.
As Strassel points out: "The entire point of the CRA was to help legislators rein in administrations that ignored statutes and the will of Congress. Few White House occupants ever showed more contempt for the law and lawmakers than Mr. Obama. Republicans if anything should take pride in using a duly passed statue to dispose of his wayward regulatory regime. It’d be a fitting and just end to Mr. Obama’s abuse of authority—and one of the better investments of time this Congress could ever make."
Mercy, sweet nullification/repeal/relief.
Should be worth a few points of GDP, and it's easy to do (regardless how "racist" it may seem).
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
CRA is good. What would be even better would be a Constitutional Amendment that makes Executive Orders ajtomatically expire with the president's term. If something is such a good idea that it should be permanent, then it should be passed by legislation and become law.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny
Mark
NRA Training Counselor-Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Reloading, Personal Protection in the Home, Personal Protection Outside the Home, Home Firearms Safety, Chief RSO. NRA Endowment Life member.
Reuters quotes House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s spokesman saying, “The Republican-dominated House will bypass the committee process and go directly to a vote by the entire chamber on a half-dozen resolutions.” This will allow the passage of resolutions to “wipe out [certain] entire regulations” put in place by Obama and his administration, the Social Security gun ban among them.
The House GOP plans to avail itself of the Congressional Review Act, via which “Congress can use simple majority votes to stop recent regulations in their tracks.” The House GOP is expected to target “rules that became final after May 31, [2016],” including the Social Security gun ban, new environmental regulations, an “anti-bribery rule aimed at U.S. resource companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp,” and regulations that make coal mining more difficult.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
Or better yet return the EOs to what they were originally used for, a way for the president to run the White House and the agencies under Executive authority. NO power or authority over private citizens. NO power or authority to create law or regulation out of whole cloth. NO power or authority to twist existing laws and regulations. If you want new laws or regulations, then pass them through Congress as prescribed by the U.S. Constitution.
mreising wrote:CRA is good. What would be even better would be a Constitutional Amendment that makes Executive Orders ajtomatically expire with the president's term. If something is such a good idea that it should be permanent, then it should be passed by legislation and become law.
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