WestVirginiaRebel Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Fox News: House Republicans are plotting a broad effort to push the Obama administration to rein in federal regulations and reform a key part of the health care law in a bid to curb what lawmakers see as abuse of executive power by an "imperial presidency." House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., on Friday sent a memo to GOP lawmakers accusing President Obama of "effectively rewriting the laws" and called for a fight to "restore the balance of power created by our Founders," The Hill reported. "President Obama has provided new clarity as to what constitutes an imperial presidency," Cantor wrote Friday in the memo. "Declaring that he has a 'pen and a phone,' he has acted to effectively rewrite the laws of the United States." Cantor said several bills will be taken up next week in the House to push back against the administration's "excessive and burdensome" regulations, including a proposal that reforms the way federal agencies create new regulations, The Hill reported. The Regulatory Accountability Act, introduced last year by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., reforms the current federal rulemaking process to require that agencies write regulations that impose the lowest possible cost on businesses. Cantor's memo also mentioned Rep. George Holding's, R-N.C., All Economic Regulations are Transparent (ALERT) Act, which would require federal agencies to provide timely information about the status and cost of new regulations under consideration, according to The Hill. ________ Pushing back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Mar 19, 2014 The Pen, the Phone—and the Constitution by Bradley C. S. Watson President Obama and his advisors have told us that he can work around a purportedly obstructionist Congress by using what they claim is legitimate executive authority exercised by “pen and phone.” The phrase is meant to put across the idea that the president can get things done by signing off on various formal and informal executive initiatives, and cajoling Americans within government and without to act according to his vision. White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer, who is credited with inventing the phrase, recently explicated its meaning by observing that in an era of divided government, a Democratic president cannot easily get his way when Republicans control Congress. In order to “move the ball forward” on the president’s agenda, the deployment of “executive power” is required, according Pfeiffer. Of course, divided government is a function of the Founders’ separation of powers regime, and it has been under assault by progressives for the past hundred years. Even without government divided along partisan lines, separation of powers is routinely a barrier to the formation and realization of concentrated national ambitions—just as the Founders intended. But one http://www.libertylawsite.org/2014/03/19/the-pen-the-phone-and-the-constitution/#.UyrnmHSfv1g.twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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