Thread: The Congressional Accountability Act

* JANUARY 14, 2011

The Congressional Accountability Act
A proposal to ban regulation without representation.

One of the most important political stories of 2011 will be regulation, as the backwash of the outgoing Congress hits the federal agencies and the White House drives its agenda via rule-making rather than democratic consent. Republicans are vowing to thwart these maneuvers, but the coming hostilities might also provide an opening to reform the modern administrative state.

The basic problem is that Congress delegates far too much power to regulators, passing ambiguous laws that convert the agencies into quasi-legislative bodies that aren't politically accountable. Even if President Obama is exploiting this trend like never before, it is hardly new, ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 23080.html

"This would make all the difference in the world to stop all these liberal judges from pushing they're own agenda's!"

We should also return supervision of recess appointments and executive orders to Congress.