Political Quotes

“This week, Congress is going to take up one of the most consequential pieces of legislation that this body has considered in years. Despite the lack of fanfare from the national media, the REINS Act is a very important piece of legislation and has the potential to overhaul the Federal bureaucracy, overhaul what many of us and many of my constituents back in Louisiana refer to as part of the deep state. It also has the potential to restore Congress' constitutional role as the chief rulemaking body in America. However, to understand the necessity of this bill, it is important that we take a step back for just a moment and examine how Congress has ceded our lawmaking authority to nameless, faceless bureaucrats that aren't accountable to anyone: not to voters and really, largely, not even to those of us in Congress. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution itself declares that: ``All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. . . . '' All. All legislative powers. The Founders intended that governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed, of course--a radical idea that suggests that laws are unjust unless they come from the people. The way that is done in our system, in our unmatched constitutional Republic, is that it comes from the people through their duly elected Representatives in Congress.…”