Posted on 12/19/2024 10:34:13 AM PST by zeestephen
The regulatory and legal battleground will be ground zero for immigration policy starting on January 20...The Supreme Court's recent decision overturning Chevron deference - once a cornerstone of judicial deference to agency interpretations - has reshaped the legal terrain...This landmark shift gives courts greater authority to scrutinize agency actions, making many Trump-era policies more likely to withstand judicial challenges.
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"Key topics discussed include:
"Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) - Optional Practical Training (OPT) - Public Charge Rule - Temporary Protected Status (TPS) - National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) - Work Authorization Policies"
This is wonderful for now but the court battle ground will be alive for both sides of any issue.
Many appear not to have processed the fact that, in areas in which the elimination of Chevron Deference has neutered executive branch agencies, Congress has, by default been empowered. Or, if you will, involuntarily re-empowered!
In response, This Guy envisions, as now necessary:
1) a doubling of the number of members of the federal House of Representatives,
2) immediate ceasing of the use of huge omnibus spending bills,
3) a corresponding, long-overdue, return to regular order through normal Congressional committee work, in terms of developing, and passing into law, an annual budget for the federal government, and
4) directly related to the elimination by SCOTUS of the Chevron Deference doctrine, TONS more House of Representatives committee work to fill the vacuum or void that was previously filled by the work of federal agency regulators/unelected bureaucrats.
Members of the expanded House or Representatives need to be buried, like John Adams was during his time with the Continental Congress (from 1774 through 1777), in grueling, head-down, nose-to-the-grindstone, detail-oriented, committee work.
Give them the pay raise they want, then work them nearly to death.
The House term of office should be increased to four years effective the next Congress by constitutional amendment.
We have the CR issue because the House members spend too much time and effort running for reelection.
Had actually been thinking of term limits. Preventing House Members from serving more than six or eight years consecutively without taking at least two or four years off from service in the House. To cycle in fresh blood and new talent. And to force changes in leadership and committee assignments. And of course to prevent entrenched corruption a lá San Fran Nan.
Also:
Repeal the 17th Amendment.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/404337-is-it-time-to-repeal-the-17th-amendment/
“September 29, 1988
“The 100th Congress is drawing rapidly to a close. I hope to receive from the Congress the remaining fiscal year 1989 appropriations bills no later than tomorrow, when the current fiscal year ends.”
That reminds me of my favorite line from the Broadway musical 1776:
-PJ
And what follows is a complete and up-to-date list of all the committees of this Congress, now sitting, about to sit or just having sat.
A committee formed to investigate a complaint made against "the quality of yeast manufactured by Mr. Henry Pendleton's mill" designated as the Yeast Committee.
A committee formed to consider the most effective method of dealing with spies designated as the Spies Committee.
A committee formed to think, perhaps to do, but in any case, to gather, to meet, to confer, to talk, and perhaps even to resolve that each rifle regiment be allowed at least one drum and one fife attached to each company, designated as the Drum and Fife Committee.
5) Elimination of the federal agency regulators' jobs, if not outright elimination of the agencies.
“term limits”
It takes years to learn the ropes. New guys/gals in Congress can be pushed around too much by the Sir Humphreys of DC.
“To cycle in fresh blood and new talent.”
Legislating well takes understanding.
Yeah. That kind of satire is fair.
On the other hand, members of the House of Representatives need to be cut down to size in terms of the number of citizens they represent, and the notion that they really individually matter that much.
Congress, obviously (even though populated by abject CongressCritters), and of course not the executive branch, is constitutionally empowered to make (federal level) rules and laws for the rest of us.
With Chevron Deference forever in our rear-view mirror, Congress (most notably the HofR) can no longer freely delegate its rulemaking power, with overbroad mandates breezily granted to unelected bureaucrats comfortably ensconced in executive branch agencies.
San Fran Nan learned the ropes decades ago.
Since then she and hubby Paul been milking the system and getting rich.
Likin’ the way you are thinkin’.
Smellin’ what you are cookin’!
“Legislating well takes understanding”
Let the good ones head back to D.C. after a two or four year break from weilding legislative branch power. Getting some exposure to the private sector and the non-governmental workplace/economy would surely be a good thing for them in terms of broadening their perspectives and developing sympathy for those perpetually exposed to Congressional laws and rules.
Heck, make a career of going back and forth to D.C. if you want. Knock yourself out of that’s what floats your boat.
PELOSI ALREADY FILED PAPERS FOR 2026 election.
“We have the CR issue because the House members spend too much time and effort running for reelection.”
Incorrect. We have the CR issue because Republicans in the House have allowed themselves to be led around by the nose by Senate Democrats and because we haven’t had a Republican President with the balls to put a stop to it.
Now we do.
L
“The House term of office should be increased to four years effective the next Congress by constitutional amendment.”
And the Senate term of office reduced to ??
Maxing out her corrupt lifetime monetary take surely requires her to remain in elected office!
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