This Lawmaker Wants Bureaucracy to Stop Spending Your Fees and Fines

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Heritage Foundation:

The House of Representatives has set its sights on reasserting congressional power that Republican leaders say has been slowly usurped over the years by courts and bureaucrats.

 

Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., last month introduced legislation that may prove to be a key piece of that effort to reclaim power from what conservatives call the administrative state.

 

H.R. 5499 would require all federal agencies that collect money directly through fines or fees to deposit that money in the general fund of the U.S. Treasury.

 

Currently, agencies can spend collected money on their own departmental budgets, without any input from Congress.