Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I rise in support of the Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2016. I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte for giving me the opportunity to lead on this issue. I also want to thank the 113 Members of Congress who believe this bill is important enough to cosponsor it. It is my sincere hope that all 435 Members of this House will vote in support of this incredibly important bill because every Member of this body took an oath to defend the Constitution and none of us should accept the constitutional erosion and infringement that is having a devastating impact on the very constituents that we all swore to represent. Mr. Chair, I ran for Congress because I wanted the opportunity to address the big issues of our time, to address the real problems that are hurting all Americans, and the Separation of Powers Restoration Act does exactly that. That bill repeals the so-called Chevron doctrine and, in so doing, will restore the constitutional separation of powers that our Founding Fathers intended. Named for the Supreme Court's 1984 decision in Chevron USA, Inc. v. Natural Resource Defense Council, Inc., the Chevron doctrine has, for three decades, required courts to defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous laws. Said more plainly, Mr. Chair, this means that when American citizens and businesses challenge Federal regulators in court, the deck is stacked in favor of the regulators.…”