…this wouldn’t be necessary – that Congress has to deliberately has to overrule some unelected, unaccountable, and more and more, unassailable bureaucrats? Who, according to the Constitution, should have the power here? What we’ve been seeing is a complete inversion of how the process is supposed to work.
“Whenever one quarter of the members of the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate transmit to the president their written declaration of opposition to a proposed federal regulation, it shall require a majority vote of the House and Senate to adopt that regulation.”
The story snippet at Instapundit – whole piece here.
The director of a coalition seeking to restore a “balance of state and federal power” is in Midland this week garnering support for a constitutional amendment he believes provides the fastest and most reliable way to rein in power of regulators in Washington.
The “Regulation Freedom Amendment” specifically says:
“Whenever one quarter of the members of the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate transmit to the president their written declaration of opposition to a proposed federal regulation, it shall require a majority vote of the House and Senate to adopt that regulation.”
Roman Buhler, director of The Madison Coalition, said the proposed constitutional amendment is backed by a bipartisan coalition, including more than 900 state legislators, six governors, the American Farm Bureau and a unanimous vote of the Republican National Committee. He said 19 state legislative chambers have passed resolutions urging Congress to propose the amendment.
This is the result of DECADES of legislators writing really bad legislation without actually doing the job and doing it write. From a completeness view, programmers could write better law – after all, the code we are paid to write actually has to work. Yes, bugs are present but they are mostly by-products. With legislators, it seems to be the main point – demanding that others fill in the holes they leave. It’s like they really don’t want to do the work we actually elected them to do and, at least in DC, pay them handsomely for doing.
More and more these last few years and Obama and his minions used their “pens” and keyboards, I’ve seen and heard Republican chuckleheads rail about what Obama has done – and never ONCE have I heard any politician point the finger at themselves (except for Ted Cruz of whom I asked, on GrokTALK!, about the 1946 Administrative Act and if he would pierce its heart and kill it). The root cause is that either politicians either don’t want to do the work or CAN’T do it (due to a lack of horsepower – I know they haven’t the will to do it).
Lazy. That’s a good description…and here’s another example.
And how the EPA was “allowed” to implement a $1 Trillion tax on the American people via regulation and not legislation is a shame – but is probably the reason we have lazy politicians. Just imagine the hue, cry, tar, and pitchforks that would have been raised over, you know, votes by those we chose to represent us to DO THIS INSTEAD of them?
And speaking of the EPA, is it right that the EPA gets to decide THIS major change instead of Legislators?
