[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 86 (Monday, May 22, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2468]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     AMERICANS RULED BY BUREAUCRATS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, our government was founded on the principle 
of rule by the people's elected Representatives, indeed, a Republic.
  The principle guided our Nation for many years and allowed the United 
States to become first among nations. Sadly, the uncontrolled growth of 
the Federal bureaucracy has usurped our constitutional foundation.
  Instead of rule by elected Representatives, Americans are mostly 
ruled by bureaucrats. Federal bureaucrats and agencies, with the aid of 
activist judges, have successfully subverted many of our freedoms and 
the God-given rights of Americans found in the Constitution.
  Almost every bill in the Bill of Rights has been successfully 
curtailed or subordinated to the wishes and desires of unelected, 
faceless bureaucrats.
  Our Founders did not intend for the citizens of the Nation to be 
ruled by rubber-stamped decrees from agencies like the EPA or the ATF.
  To add insult to injury, although we do have a mix of good people 
that are there, they are often outstripped by those that don't seem to 
care about what real people deal with. Their decrees often make no 
sense and do nothing more than make a headache for people trying to do 
basic, everyday things.
  The Endangered Species Act, I remind you, does not trump the Bill of 
Rights or the U.S. Constitution. We need to take our powers back.

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