Thomas Massie: “Reasonable minds may differ about certain policies, but under the Constitution, we should all be on the same page about…”

“Reasonable minds may differ about certain policies, but under the Constitution, we should all be on the same page about who should make law. Congress should make law. Think about some of the laws that have been promulgated by the administrative branch, things that should have come to Congress. I got on an airplane a few years ago, and they said that Federal law requires that you wear a mask. Do you know what I thought to myself? We never voted on that law. We should have voted on whether that should be a law or not. I would have voted ``no.'' It probably would not have passed, and if it had and our constituents decided it was too onerous, they could appeal to us, not some bureaucrat. What are some other examples? The vaccine mandates that cost people their jobs. These were not laws passed by Congress. These were from the executive branch. Then, tonight, we have just had two bipartisan votes to repeal executive branch rules, one on the pistol brace and one on stoves-- bipartisan. What does that mean? That means if they had tried to bring those as laws through Congress as the Founders had intended, they would have failed because there would have been bipartisan opposition to that. We should be making the laws here. It is very simple. When unelected, unaccountable, unrecallable bureaucrats write the laws, then the laws become more numerous and more onerous. We should pass the REINS Act and bring the constitutional authority back to Congress to pass legislation. Mr.…”