Bill Posey: “I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding today. Today, the issue is rules reform. Let's answer some commonly…”

“I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding today. Today, the issue is rules reform. Let's answer some commonly asked questions about agency rules. Question number one: What is a rule? To be clear, rules were made by unelected, unrecallable, unaccountable bureaucrats. Question number two: Why do agencies write rules? It has been said on the floor, and even by an expert commentator on C-SPAN, that Congress created agencies to write rules. Wrong. Congress created agencies to implement laws passed by elected people, not create new laws outside of their delegated authority. Question number three: Most people back home think Congress makes all the Federal laws. Is that true? Wrong. For every law elected representatives make, unelected, unrecallable, unaccountable bureaucrats can make 1,000 or more new rules enforceable as laws. Last time I checked, there were 170-some volumes of Federal code that were actually passed by elected representatives. The laws known as rules made by unelected, unrecallable, unaccountable bureaucrats could fill this Chamber. {time} 2015 Question number four: Can an American citizen end up in court or in prison for violating a rule made by an unelected, unrecallable, unaccountable bureaucrat? The answer is yes. It is estimated that if a citizen is called into Federal court, it is 100 to 1,000 times more likely to be a result of violating a rule made by an unelected person than a law.…”