House To Vote To Reduce Power Of Bureaucracy With REINS Act

 Later this week, the U.S. House is scheduled to vote on an important measure that addresses the immense rule-making power of the administrative state and the threat that poses to our Constitution's structure.

The REINS Act, or Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, would help limit Congress's overly vast delegation of lawmaking power to the federal bureaucracy-delegation that threatens the core principle of self-government by elected representatives.

The basic idea of the REINS Act is simple: All "Major rules" do not take effect until and unless both houses of Congress pass a joint resolution to approve them.

Some have attacked the idea behind the REINS Act-having members of Congress vote for regulations that function effectively the same as laws-as radical.

Even the early defenders of the administrative state, who cheered as Congress delegated vast lawmaking power to the bureaucracy, acknowledged the constitutional problem with it.

One of these early supporters of the administrative state, James Landis, who served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission during the New Deal, proposed a solution to the constitutional problem: Allow agencies to propose the rules, but require Congress to vote on them before they become legally binding.

The basic idea of the REINS Act-that Congress should vote on the major rules that carry significant impact-is rooted in the core constitutional principle of self-government through elected representatives.

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