Sheila Jackson Lee: “I would be willing to look at discussing this further by looking at what are the holes, where do we think we are not…”

“I would be willing to look at discussing this further by looking at what are the holes, where do we think we are not being effective on behalf of the American people. That is reasonable legislation and legislative discourse, if you will. But I can't look at something that tells me that I have got to take something involving the Children's Health Insurance Program or the 1191 waiver that deals with Medicaid, and I have got to untangle it, go into a court because someone challenged it, and I have got people waiting in line for healthcare relief and hospitals that are looking for payment on uncompensated care, and I have got a court that has to now ramp up. And individual courts don't have the vastness of research that agencies have to be experts on health care and to be experts on a variety of issues that are so very important to us. I would hope that we can send this legislation back. I hope that we could look--what are we trying to fix? I think the three branches of government are very clear. We legislate, the executive has its powers, and there are agencies. But the citizens have a right to seek a review of a regulatory structure or a regulation. They have judicial review. Section 702 of the APA, in its current form, subjects agency rulemaking to judicial review for any person suffering legal wrong because of agency action, or adversely affected or aggrieved by agency action within the meaning of a relevant statute.…”