[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SEPARATION OF POWERS

  (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, I rise in support of H.R. 4768, which the 
House will consider later this week. This bill will prevent Federal 
agencies from using creative interpretations of law to expand their own 
authority.
  In an ideal world, agencies would implement the law as Congress 
writes it. You wouldn't have judicial deference to agency 
interpretations of the law.
  Unfortunately, we do not live in that ideal world. And rather than 
respect congressional intent, Federal agencies, especially under the 
Obama administration, have time and time again interpreted the laws in 
ways never intended in order to increase their own power.
  The waters of the United States proposal and the Clean Power Plan, 
both rejected with bipartisan opposition, are just two recent examples 
of agency overreach.
  Mr. Speaker, it is high time that Congress remind these agencies that 
the people's elected Representatives, not bureaucracies, write our 
Nation's laws, not unaccountable bureaucrats or courts willing to go 
along with it.

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