House chairs to send letters to Vilsack about Chevron decision

Fence Post ^ | Jul 11, 2024 | Hagstrom

[george76]

Republican chairs of House committees will send letters to agency heads including Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to ask for their reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision last week in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturning the Chevron doctrine, which gave deference to federal agencies in writing regulations.

In a news release, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said, “This week, House Republican Committees are sending letters to their corresponding federal agencies to demand the review of various overreaching regulations in our fight to free the American people from the power-hungry administrative state. Agencies can’t be allowed to run free without any checks on their power – we’ve already seen how frequently federal agencies will abuse their authority. We intend to ensure agencies are held accountable following the court’s ruling and observe the proper checks on their power.”

Scalise also said, “Our Founding Fathers designed the American government with a key aspect to ensure a system of checks and balances between the three branches of government: the separation of powers. But since Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc., federal agencies have had free rein to interpret statutes and write rules in a way that expands their authority with few limits, allowing the administrative state to assume powers our founders intended for the Supreme Court and Congress. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, that is no longer the case.

“With their ruling in this case, the Supreme Court restored proper constitutional separation of powers as our Founding Fathers intended by overturning Chevron deference and requiring the courts to decide disputes over interpretation of statutory text.”

The letter to Vilsack was signed by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa.; House Education & the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.; and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman Jamie Comer, R-Ky.

[gibsonguy]

Hoo boy here come the sternly written letters.

[curious7]

Why wait until this SCOTUS decision? Congress is supposed to control what regulations are law and what aren’t. They need to cut back on the vacay’s and do their job.

[Robert DeLong]

SCOYUS made their decision. They got rid of Chevron deference.

[Fungi]

Don't forget the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which was established by Nixon through an executive order. And the Education Department which educates no one except its employees on how to keep a useless job doing nothing while “earning” a federal paycheck. The Commerce Department which only promotes commerce in federal employee paychecks.
And that is just the beginning.
From the Declaration of Independence—remember that Document?

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

[Robert DeLong]

It sounds to me as if these letters are inquiring if they have stopped usurping the power that is Congress’s power, not the various agencies. At least that is how I am reading it.

[Dahoser]

I, for one, can understand how it’s too much for these chairmen to call a hearing and demand answers in person what with the August recess coming up. They really cannot let something like the nation’s business intrude on all the plans needing to be finalized for going to the beach and spending time with the family.

[griswold3]

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance
Bears repeating

[gibsonguy]

I guess l have learned not to expect much

[gibsonguy]

I guess l have learned not to expect much so l tend to be skeptical

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah me too, I understand. I know of no one that in the Republicans House that had tremendous success. The Republicans are not the kind of attack dogs that the Democrats are. That has got to change, because the need to rise to the occasion to produce results like the Democrats do. But then the difference is that Democrats will go to the extremes that the Republicans refuse to be as aggressive. It’s as if they are afraid of getting burned, because they do not have the support of the press. In other words, they are intimidated by the Democrats & their presstitutes. They have to overcome their fears, and we have to help them do so..

[Erik Latranyi]

The agencies will continue writing rules and defy the SCOTUS decision. It will take a decade to litigate matters.

[sergeantdave]

Congress could have stripped the fascist bureaucrats of their illegal law-making power anytime but didn’t.

One law would have done the job: Only Congress may write law.

Duh!!!!

[sergeantdave]

“The agencies will continue writing rules and defy the SCOTUS decision.”

And states can refuse to recognize the authority of bureaucrats to write law or enforce illegal diktats on its sovereign territory, citing the Bright decision. Give the fascists one hour to remove themselves or face arrest.