Madam President, I rise today really to take a moment and evaluate the repeated and unfortunately habitual overreach of the Biden administration. When our Founding Fathers established our Nation, they were certain to build a government that rejected undivided sovereignty, or the rule of a single person. They had the monarchy, and they didn't like it. This structure features three distinct branches of government: the legislative branch, where we are here, to create and pass laws; an executive branch, responsible for enforcing the laws; and a judicial branch to make certain these laws and actions hold just with our Constitution. Typically, this is a lesson we all learn in high school, but it seems like President Biden and his administration must have missed that lecture on balance of powers because their actions throughout the last 2 years have shown a lot of disrespect for our Constitution--and disregard. A recent analysis by the American Action Forum found that in just 2 years, the Biden administration has imposed 517 regulatory actions-- 517--creating $318 billion in total costs--a figure that massively outweighs the regulatory costs generated by the last two Presidential administrations. Executive overreach has become synonymous with the Biden administration and has created a desperate need for oversight from our Republican colleagues here in the Senate, and certainly that is occurring across the way in the House of Representatives.…
On the recordMarch 1, 2023
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