Paul Coverdell: “I want to first make it clear--and I think Senator Craig alluded to this--that this is a constitutional confrontation.…”

“I want to first make it clear--and I think Senator Craig alluded to this--that this is a constitutional confrontation. There is a growing propensity on the part of the administration, faced with a Congress that the people elected that are of a majority of the other party, to try to obviate the legislative branch through two courses: By Executive order or decree--and we have certainly seen the abuses of that throughout the world, which is why the Republic is so carefully constructed; and by regulation, which is something that has become unique in our own development in this country, where more and more regulators are lawmakers. You can't blame this administration alone for that kind of activity, but it has certainly accelerated. I want to point out that I have already pointed out that the U.S. appellate court struck down the President's last attempt at this kind of reconstruction of the Republic. But there are other judicial precedents. ... Lawmaking in America cannot be done in an isolated room with just special interests.”