If only the NH and the US Legislatures would to the same: DO THEIR JOBS! - Granite Grok

If only the NH and the US Legislatures would to the same: DO THEIR JOBS!

Instead of sloughing it off on the Executive Branch to fill in their “legislation holes”.  And become “jealous” of both their power AND responsibility to the point of not allowing the Executive Branch and the Courts to fill the Legislative role in our separate branches of governance.  Tennessee – a model to follow?

During the long years of Democratic rule, the Government Operations committees in the Legislature were boring exercises in routine housekeeping legislation. They were often stacked with some of the party’s less than stellar members, because you have to put them somewhere, and they rubber-stamped whatever the leadership wanted.

Like our examples here in NH who collectively couldn’t collectively muster a mild brain fart due to lack of grey matter or political courage.

“Government Ops” under Republican rule has morphed into a very powerful operation, rivaling even the Rules Committee or Finance. The power to regulate state bureaucrats has always been there; it’s just not been exercised until now.

There has been a major revolution in the operation of state government that has occurred while everyone has been preoccupied with Bible bills, bathroom bills and other idiocy. State bureaucrats are no longer free to impose draconian regulations, increase fees or make rule changes without first getting a sign-off from the Legislature.

The House committee on Government Ops is led by state Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Newport. Faison is a rising star in the House, and he has had his committee reviewing with a view to eliminating or keeping 182 boards and commissions.

What a concept – keeping control to itself as far as regulating / not regulating the lives of its citzens (instead of those that have a vested interest in Crony Capitalism which seems to be the main reason that unelected boards and commissions).  Isn’t that the real reason why a legislature exists in the first place?  Then, perhaps they could learn that a lot of the time, Government’s answer to the vast majority of problems is simply to do nothing – we all here in the private sector / Civil Society aren’t the dullards that Progressives in both parties think us to be.  Trust me, doing nothing would cause more and more people to stop viewing government as the first resort (instead of what it should be – the absolute last resort (and sometimes, not even then)).

He has also led the effort to get control of unelected bureaucrats imposing regulations at will. He is working in tandem with state Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville. New rules and regulations must now come to their committees for approval before they can be implemented. It turns the usual practice on its head. This has been met with horror by special interest groups that benefit from the status quo.

And that is the worst part of the rise of the Progressive Administrative State – unelected and unaccountable people, regardless of intent (but be sure, it is not always a beneficial outlook for US) combining all three branches into itself without fear of retribution.

Nice to see SOMEBODY is standing up and saying “no mas!”.

The Administrative State – just another name for another kind of feudalism and nobility.

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