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“It is because democracy holds every public power under public scrutiny and challenges every pretension of wisdom and balances every force with a countervailing force, that some of the injustices which characterize traditional societies, and modern tyrannies, are prevented.”—Reinhold Niebuhr
The good society is one which strives to maintain the greatest possible degree of equilibrium so that various competing powers and interests and truths would check and neutralize one another. The tens of thousands of new regulations imposed by unaccountable agencies each year negate the above and limit individual liberty and choice in myriad, often unrecognized ways. Regulations are hidden taxes, draining trillions of dollars from individual households and businesses every year, representing the largest single fiscal burden on the economy outside of individual and corporate income taxes.
A sober and honest analysis would describe the provisions as forcing Congress finally to take responsibility for the regulations developed by executive agencies purported as detailed mechanisms executing the laws Congress itself passed. Under the REINS (Regulations of the Executive In Need of Scrutiny Act) provisions, if Congress disagrees with an agency’s interpretation of what a law requires or imposes, Congress’s interpretation will reign supreme, allowing it to block regulations the body disagrees with from becoming the law of the land.
Congress previously gave itself the power to review and block major regulation retroactively for a limited period of time through the Congressional Review Act (CRA) of 1996, but it has rarely used that power, and when it has, its efforts have most often been blocked by a presidential veto. The CRA allowed the House and the Senate to pass resolutions of disapproval to block major regulations. Despite tens of thousands of regulations being enacted in nearly 30 years since the CRA passed, Congress has used it successfully to overturn rules only 20 times.
The superiority of the REINS Act to the CRA is clear: under the CRA, a regulation becomes law by default unless Congress moves to disapprove it. The REINS Act would reverse this, canceling any major regulation Congress does not explicitly approve. In addition, the president would not be authorized to ignore the will of Congress and its interpretation of what the law it has written demands, because no veto is available. The rule doesn’t become law unless Congress approves.
The REINS Act could be the single most beneficial law Congress could adopt in defending the Constitution, upholding individual choice, and advancing economic certainty and progress. Congress and only Congress was given the power to regulate interstate commerce. It didn’t jealously guard that power before now; it should do so going forward.
Supplemental Info:
Our courts have to often taken it upon themselves to amend rather than interpret the law.
https://reason.com/2025/05/26/courts-are-quietly-taking-over-the-internet/
https://www.newsmax.com/robertchernin/democrats-constitution-immigration/2025/05/19/id/1211486/
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