Chairman Massie: In recent years, the Administrative State has issued regulations carrying the force of law more than twenty times as frequently as America's elected representatives have passed laws through the process the Constitution requires.
The first thing out of democrat's mouths is always that, 'we are wasting our time with a hearing like this'.
Allyson Ho [Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher]: Deference Doctrines have become a tool for agencies to expand their power and influence, often at the expense of individual rights and freedoms. One of the biggest problems with deference, is that it allows agencies to effectively write their own laws.
Jonathan Wolfson [Chief Legal Officer and Policy Director, Cicero Institute]: At times, regulatory agencies even act to make new laws without any congressional authority at all.
Ryan Cleckner [Co-founder, Gun University]: This rule [Firearm Stabilizing Braces] by fiat, effectively gives the ATF the power to determine who is a felon by the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen.This is not an appropriate enforcement of law, it is tyranny.
Emily Hammond [George Washington University Law School]: Weak regulatory protections mean fewer people make it home to their families after work. More people die too soon. And we hasten and intensify climate disasters.
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Issa: Is it correct that we could strip every single statute…voting to do so, and eliminate all statutes since the beginning of time, and start over if we chose to, and that would be constitutional?
Wolfson: Yes…if congress passes a law to strip all current statutes, they would be allowed to do that.
Hammond is a caricature of a liberal 'professor'.