GOP Not Legislating, Trying To Stop Regulating Too

As part of their war on policy, the House GOP has basically stopped producing legislation.  There is one major exception however, they are still trying to pass bills that will stop the executive branch from implementing previous legislation.

The conference has sought to put the president’s rulemaking agenda on trial in dozens of hearings convened in 2013 by Republican committee and subcommittee leaders.

Lawmakers have taken aim at everything from new limits on the hours that truck drivers can spend behind the wheel to draft standards for the amount of pollution that can spew from power plants.

These bills will die in the Senate (and in any case, would be vetoed by the President).  Still one has to marvel at the attempt by the House GOP, not only to “do nothing” but to actually move backwards.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.