{"id":1940,"date":"2017-02-02T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2017-02-02T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:58:48","slug":"congress-power-thought-roll-back-federal-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/congress-power-thought-roll-back-federal-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress has more power than we thought to roll back federal regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/504723292\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/504723292?et=CquF-hEcTmxxza2P4LqihA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=IOiqkINQkTiWeClSSwnPvGhwBaHGdwXJG20E87aXpbI=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Any time an oversized government can be scaled back, that\u2019s a good thing. And when it can be done without a lot of red tape, that\u2019s even better.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Congress has the power to cut back President Obama\u2019s endless flow of regulations thanks to the Congressional Review Act (CRA). This law allows Congress to \u201ceasily undo any regulations that have been published in the Federal Register in the last 60 legislative days. That means anything back through June 13,\u201d states the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/congress-might-be-able-to-axe-a-lot-more-obama-regulations-than-you-thought\/article\/2613241\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, congressional Republicans are set to repeal at least five \u201crelatively obscure rules\u201d but anticipate going after \u201cseveral more high-profile ones\u201d in the coming months, according to the report. But here\u2019s something most of us didn\u2019t realize, even most members of Congress, that gives our elected leaders bigger scissors to cut through the bloat.<\/p>\n<p>It all hinges on the 60-day portion of the rule. That time limit starts at the moment the law is voted in OR when Congress is alerted with a report. In other words, if a report isn\u2019t sent to the House, Congress isn\u2019t restricted by time for a repeal and the 60-day timer would start at the point when a report is ordered, giving Congress plenty of time to throw out the law.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reporter Kimberley Strassel explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere was always intended to be consequences if agencies didn\u2019t deliver these reports,\u201d [the Pacific Legal Foundation\u2019s Todd] Gaziano tells me. \u201cAnd while some Obama agencies may have been better at sending reports, others, through incompetence or spite, likely didn\u2019t.\u201d Bottom line: There are rules for which there are no reports. And if the Trump administration were now to submit those reports\u2014for rules implemented long ago\u2014Congress would be free to vote the regulations down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In theory, legislation that was enacted at the beginning of the Obama administration (or even further back?) but never issued in an official report could be placed on the chopping block. That\u2019s a lobbed softball waiting to be knocked out of the park if Congress is paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is, if a future Democrat president tried to restore a law even remotely similar to one that had been repealed under the CRA, the courts would almost certainly rule against.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate hope for reining in the federal government still lies with a Convention of States, but this is a great place to start.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/255863\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instapundit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, get to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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