Stopping Federal Agency Abuse
Jan 5, 2016The Executive branch has a duty to ‘execute’ or implement the law passed by Congress. While some deference to agency interpretation is warranted, agencies’ power to make law is limited by the specific Congressional authority delegated to the agency. In too many cases now, unelected bureaucrats are rewriting law. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency cited the Clean Air Act to implement a utility regulation that would have cost consumers $10 billion. In this instance, the Supreme Court ruled the EPA acted unlawfully. The administration’s Clean Power Plan is yet another attempt to legislate and impose ‘cap and trade’ legislation that failed to pass Congress.