On the recordJuly 28, 2015
Mr. Chairman, the amendment seeks to carve out from the REINS Act's reforms regulations intended to protect young children and infants from harm. Child safety is a goal all Members share, but to shield bureaucrats who write child safety regulations from accountability to Congress is no way to guarantee child safety. The only thing that that would guarantee is less careful decisionmaking and more insulation of faceless bureaucrats from the public. Congress needs a better mechanism to make sure that Washington bureaucrats make the right decision to protect child safety when we delegate legislative authority to regulatory agencies. I urge my colleagues to oppose this bad amendment. I reserve the balance of my time.
