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Congressional Responsibility
and Accountability Act
Ron Paul
Infowars.net
Thursday Aug 30, 2007
Before the U.S. House of Representatives on August
1, 2007
Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce the Congressional Responsibility
and Accountability Act. This bill requires Congress to specifically
authorize via legislation any proposed federal regulation that
will impose costs on any individual of at least $5,000, impose
costs on a business or other private organization of at least
$25,000, impose aggregate costs on the American people of at least
$250,000, or cause any American to lose his or her job.
According to some legal experts, at least three-quarters of all
federal laws consist of regulations promulgated by federal agencies
without the consent, or even the review of, Congress. Allowing
unelected, and thus unaccountable, executive agencies to make
law undermines democracy. Law-making by executive agencies also
violates the intent of the drafters of the Constitution to separate
legislative and executive powers. The drafters of the Constitution
correctly viewed separation of powers as a cornerstone of republican
government and a key to protecting individual liberty from excessive
and arbitrary government power.
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Congress’s delegation of law-making authority to unelected
bureaucrats has created a system that seems to owe more to the
writings of Franz Kafka than to the writings of James Madison.
The volume of regulations promulgated by federal agencies and
the constant introduction of new rules make it impossible for
most Americans to know with any certainty the federal laws, regulations,
and rules they are required to obey. Thus, almost all Americans
live with the danger that they may be hauled before a federal
agency for an infraction they have no reasonable way of knowing
is against the law.
While it is easy for members of Congress to complain about out-of-control
federal bureaucrats, it was Congress that gave these agencies
the ability to create laws. Since Congress created the problem
of lawmaking by regulatory agencies, it is up to Congress to fix
the problem and make certain that all federal laws are passed
by the people’s elected representatives. Therefore, Madame
Speaker, I urge my colleagues to cosponsor the Congressional Responsibility
and Accountability Act.
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