Congress: Reduce executive orders and agency regulations

[rangerrebew]

January 3, 2017
Congress: Reduce executive orders and agency regulations
By J. Marsolo

Obama has used agency regulations and executive orders to bypass Congress because he knew that Congress would not pass the measures he imposed unilaterally by executive orders and agency regulations.  Obama bragged about doing this by saying, "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone."

Bill Clinton's aide, Paul Begala, referred to this as "stroke of the pen 'Law of the land. Kind of cool."

To correct this, the Republican Congress plans to enact measures to limit the power of agencies to issue regulations.  The Washington Post reported on January 2, 2017:

    GOP leaders have cited the 21-year old Congressional Review


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[rangerrebew]

It will never happen.  If it did, congress would have to work much harder in it's oversight capacity.  They started abdicating their responsibilities under the Constitution before the Civil War and they aren't going to give up the gravy train.