[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 105 (Thursday, June 15, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2948]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      REIN IN FEDERAL REGULATIONS

  (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, Federal bureaucrats have usurped more and 
more power over the American people in the last few decades.
  Three-letter agencies now regularly enact sweeping unilateral rules 
without congressional approval or consent of the American people. This 
kind of governance is not in the spirit of the Constitution.
  Congress makes the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and 
the judiciary makes sure the laws are constitutional.
  Agency rulemaking makes a mockery of this system of checks and 
balances. This is why House Republicans passed the REINS Act. This bill 
will allow Congress to rein in out-of-control agencies by requiring our 
oversight over any regulation that is going to cost the people over 
$100 million.
  Congress for too long has abdicated its authority over these 
agencies. It is time for that to end.
  It has been devastating, especially to our rural economies in 
agriculture, in mining, and in timber. It is killing small towns. 
Instead, they are burning up because they can't get over the 
regulations to do normal things like timber harvest, et cetera.
  The American people elected us to do the job--not the EPA, not the 
ATF, not the FDA--to make the laws of this country.

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