Limiting Executive Overreach and Providing Accountability in Rulemaking

Too often under the Biden Administration, unelected bureaucrats in federal agencies pass rules that, when enacted, act as laws – allowing federal agencies to essentially force whatever regulations they want on the American people with no oversight or accountability.

This overstepping of the executive branch into the role of Congress as described in Article 1 of the Constitution not only threatens the checks and balances designed by our Founders for the three branches of government, but also burdens American families and businesses with invasive and unnecessary regulations.

We’ve seen it with the Department of Energy and the Consumer Product Safety Commission attempting to pass rules to ban gas stoves, with the Environmental Protection Agency trying to regulate emissions so that Americans are forced to switch to electric vehicles, with the Department of Education trying to force American taxpayers to repay student loan debt that doesn't belong to them, and many other examples.

All of these decisions skyrocket costs for the American people to appease unelected, radical bureaucrats in the Biden Administration and further their agendas. American families are sick and tired of having to pay for the extremist ideas of federal agencies that are trying to tell hardworking Americans how they should live their lives at a higher price. 

As unelected bureaucrats in Washington continue to push costly and burdensome regulatory agendas, House Republicans are bringing forward an important measure to limit executive agency overreach and provide accountability for the American people.

Rep. Ben Cline’s legislation, H.R. 357, the Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act, requires that rules from federal agencies be issued and signed by the head of the agency, who is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, to keep federal rulemaking in check and constitutional.

House Republicans won’t stop fighting for the hardworking families across this country who are struggling under the weight of the extremist regulations coming from the Biden Administration.