Virginia Foxx: “My colleagues have said that this is overdrawn in terms of the way the CRA was written, the Congressional Review Act was…”

“My colleagues have said that this is overdrawn in terms of the way the CRA was written, the Congressional Review Act was written, and that it does too much. It gets into too many other things other than simply turning back the President's proposal. It deals with the debt and repayment of debt and those kinds of things. However, this CRA does not in any way tie the hands of Congress. It is up to us to pass the laws. What it does do is stop unelected bureaucrats from writing laws in the form of rules to implement laws passed by Congress. We didn't authorize the Department to do many of the things that it is doing. Congress did not do that, but it is doing many things. The CRA will stop the President's actions and some of these other things that are happening. We have the authority to write legislation, to do whatever we want to. If we want to write legislation to take care of debt and to take care of interest rates, we can do that. Forgive me, Mr. Speaker, for not crying crocodile tears along with my colleagues on the accessibility to college in this country. College in this country is accessible to anyone who has the capable skills to attend, or taxpayers covering the costs of college for many who can pay for themselves and many who simply take advantage of generous taxpayers by skipping out on their loans. That is not what the help from taxpayers is supposed to do.…”