Sheila Jackson Lee: “We cannot run the government by ambiguity, confusion, lack of clarity, and just throwing language down on the floor and…”

“We cannot run the government by ambiguity, confusion, lack of clarity, and just throwing language down on the floor and expecting all the pieces of government to work together. I question whether this legislation and the legislation dealing with the Congressional Review Act is ever going to be passed in the United States Senate. I question that. It would have been nice to have hearings and work together. This amendment tries to bring clarity. My amendment tries to define the term ``significant impact.'' The term ``significant impact on inflation'' means an executive order was estimated to increase or decrease Consumer Price Index inflation by at least 1 percentage point over the course of a year. This amendment does clarify that the meaning of ``significant impact on inflation'' is quantifiable in any effort to make such a determination. The lack of specificity of applicability for when this unnecessary legislative restriction would take place, and mandate, will be imposed on all executive orders, as provided for in the bill, is unnecessary, time-consuming, and a waste of resources. In fact, I don't even know how any President would get through it. I am not saying that executive orders should not have their necessary oversight. They can. The Oversight and Accountability Committee and other jurisdictional committees can have oversight.…”