Will Congress have to learn to
write laws again
Washington Examiner,
by
Michael Barone
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/16/2019 10:55:42 PM
Congress needs to learn to do a better job of writing laws. That’s my conclusion after reviewing the legal debate over whether the Supreme Court should renounce the Chevron doctrine it unanimously promulgated (with three justices not participating) back in 1984. What is the Chevron doctrine, and why does it matter? It arose out of a Clean Air Act case, and it hinged on whether the Court must accept a regulatory agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute passed by Congress. The court said that yes, it must. Once it found the statute (a provision of the Clean Air Act) ambiguous, it had to accept the interpretation of the agency
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JL80863 9/16/2019 11:02:41 PM (No. 181852)
Are there politicians and lawyers involved? Never happen.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/16/2019 11:14:50 PM (No. 181857)
You would have to fire the current lot first.
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I would like for all of them to show up and act like adults. Every member of Congress that wants to run for a higher office should have to resign.
You are either a House member or Senator and sit in the seat or resign instead of campaigning while We the People pay your salary.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Geoman 9/17/2019 12:59:59 AM (No. 181898)
There's not a Congressman alive who has ever written actual piece of legislation that became law by his/her lonesome.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/17/2019 1:12:06 AM (No. 181902)
How long has it been since Congress wrote its own laws? They have their campaign contributors write the bills now because they're all too stupid and lazy. The only thing they do is add a sentence saying such and such administrator has full authority to fill in the details. CommieCare is a good example.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/17/2019 2:15:11 AM (No. 181918)
They set their own pay and benefits, that's one thing they can get right. As for laws they don't follow the ones they have written so far so why bother? Laws are for the little people. Was there every a more useless bunch in American History?
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The congress critters haven’t written squat since they have aides AND lobbyists who do all the heavy writing and lifting. Critters collect salaries and “bribes”, nothing else.
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My hope is that Congress never writes another law, and never again passes one. My further hope is that we have an honest executive branch to administer the laws on the books.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/17/2019 8:21:02 AM (No. 182069)
I know on the left clerks and gofers write the laws while the congress and senators bicker, fight and criticize opponents while looking for microphones to make idiotic statements. They should get paid for working not having committee hearings like the one with a Swedish sixteen year old on climate change. Their pay should be held back for those shenanigans. Most of those do nothings I wouldn't give the time of day on the street corner because I know adults and they are not adults.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
fayebeck 9/17/2019 8:35:36 AM (No. 182092)
#8 is today's winner.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
janjan 9/17/2019 9:00:01 AM (No. 182142)
When the Democrats took the House they immediately turned it into a reality TV show.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Franz 9/17/2019 10:12:37 AM (No. 182243)
The Supreme Court should renounce the Chevron doctrine. When a law is ambiguous, agency regulations should be put on hold until Congress clarifies the law. Overly aggressive agencies, of which the EPA is the "poster child," have used this doctrine to run wild.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/17/2019 11:31:42 AM (No. 182314)
Maybe the Congress shouldn't be trying to do complex things. Their failures are often due to the reality that it is impossible for government to respond quickly to changing situations. Trying to manage our healthcare for example. Such things are best left to private business that has the focus and funds to deliver the needed actions. Private business is also grounded in economic realities instead of government claptrap like "Green New Deals" that think that decrees can alter reality.
If government action is required, Congress should spell it out. The bureaucracy should only execute and go back to Congress for any additional authority. If the bureaucracy exceeds it's bounds, the courts should disallow it and send the issue back to Congress. Only accountable elected officials should make policy. The extension of the EPA's power that founded the Chevron idiocy is a perfect example of the camel's nose under the tent. Soon you have the whole camel in the tent, like declaring CO2 a pollutant.
I look as the Presidency quite differently. The President IS elected and has the Constitutional authority to act. The president has full authority to declare and respond to emergencies, assign tariffs, deal with immigration constraints, etc. If voters don't like what he does, they can not reelect him.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/17/2019 12:01:14 PM (No. 182333)
If they are anything like Oregon's legislation writers, it isn't the members who write the stuff now, it is the lobbyists and donors who do. They simply present the pre-written bills and the staffers edit them. Members of congress haven't done their jobs for a very long time.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Clinger 9/17/2019 2:06:44 PM (No. 182431)
I'm pretty sure eliminating "laws" that are inconsistent with the spirit of and letter of the Constitution would be a niece touch.
Every time I hear they are going to "get things done" I hide my wallet and grab my gun.
As far as I'm concerned the only new legislation that needs to be written and should be priority one before taking another breath, is a balanced budget requirement. That should have been a given, similar to the bill of rights which several founders though to be a "given" and thus redundant. Now not only are our natural unalienable rights not universally accepted intuitively, clearly written language that should not have even been necessary isn't enough.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
citizen 9/17/2019 5:26:22 PM (No. 182538)
Lobbyists write our laws..congess just passes them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
judy 9/17/2019 6:50:11 PM (No. 182627)
Oh please .....they’re toooo busy conducting hearings.
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