Rae Oliver Davis: “Thank you, Judge. It's good to be with you tonight working in common cause on this issue. So many of us have seen not…”

“Thank you, Judge. It's good to be with you tonight working in common cause on this issue. So many of us have seen not simply in the last 2 years or the last 4 years, but a growth of government really over the last 50 years that is unprecedented, and it's increasing every year in size. The intent behind the Congressional Review Act in 1996 was absolutely solid. But when it went into law, one of the challenges that happened was that law didn't really have the teeth in it to force accountability of the agency community with the Congress. And I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the things that led up to our introduction of the REINS Act, H.R. 3765, the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny Act. And it's a long name to really give the analogy of pulling back on this unbridled growth or race to increase the size of the government. The only time that the Congressional Review Act has been effectively used to block the implementation of a regulation was the ergonomics rule from the Clinton administration's Department of Labor that was going to be implemented in early 2001, and it was struck down by the incoming Congress and then signed into law by President Bush as one of his earliest legislative actions in 2001. Since that time of the Republican administration and a subsequent Democrat administration, we have seen an explosion of regulations.”