[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 103 (Tuesday, June 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2872]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               SUPPORTING CONGRESS' LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY

  (Mr. CLINE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLINE. Mr. Speaker, since our country's founding, the United 
States Constitution has granted Congress the legislative authority to 
decide major questions of nationwide policy.
  Yet, since President Biden took office, his administration has 
continued his assault on America's economy with costly Federal 
regulations and executive overreach of power to advance his radical 
agenda.
  In its first year alone, the Biden administration finalized liberal 
regulations that added more than $200 billion in new regulatory costs. 
The Biden administration has acted unilaterally on several occasions to 
circumvent congressional approval to pass policies that advance its 
far-left agenda.
  We saw this in the Biden administration's attempt to pass the 
unconstitutional student loan giveaway plan, putting taxpayers on the 
hook for others' heavy college debt. We saw this in the Biden 
administration's cancelation of pending oil and gas lease sales, hiking 
up energy costs for hardworking families. We saw this in the Biden 
administration's proposed ESG investment rule that would put seniors' 
hard-earned retirement savings at risk.
  This is all unacceptable. American taxpayers deserve to know just how 
much the administration's executive orders will cost them before they 
go into effect.
  As our Nation faces $31 trillion in debt, Congress must pass the 
REINS Act. I urge my colleagues to support this important legislation.

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