{"id":15222,"date":"2012-07-25T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15222"},"modified":"2012-07-25T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T21:55:19","slug":"reins-act-gets-new-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15222\/reins-act-gets-new-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"REINS Act Gets New Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The important reform bill, the Regulations of the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (<a href=\"http:\/\/geoffdavis.house.gov\/reins\/\" target=\"_blank\">REINS<\/a>) Act, is getting new champion with the retirement of Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY).<\/p>\n<p>From an emailed press release announcing the change:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTodd Young is one of the hardest-working and most diligent new members of Congress.\u00a0 He has enthusiastically championed the REINS Act at home and in Washington,\u201d said Congressman Davis. \u00a0\u201cCongress has excessively delegated its constitutional responsibility for making the law of the land to unelected bureaucrats for too long.\u00a0 The REINS Act is one of the most important structural reforms to restore this accountability.\u00a0 I am confident that Congressman Young will be a tireless champion for the REINS Act going forward.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Calling Young \u201ctireless\u201d is a good word choice.\u00a0 According to the Congressman\u2019s official <a href=\"http:\/\/toddyoung.house.gov\/about-todd\/ \" target=\"_blank\">bio<\/a>, he put himself through night school to get an MBA from the University of Chicago and a law degree from the University of Indiana.\u00a0 Prior to that, he enlisted in the Navy en route to securing an appointment to that branch\u2019s academy.<\/p>\n<p>Young will need that doggedness to pass the REINS ACT into law.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there is no congressional oversight of bureaucratic \u201cmajor rules\u201d costing the economy $100 million a year or more in compliance costs.\u00a0 The REINS Act would change that by requiring administrative agencies to submit proposed major rules to Congress for an up-or-down vote in both chambers before becoming law.\u00a0 The aim is to stop rogue agencies like EPA or HHS from legislating through rulemaking what they can\u2019t get Congress to pass through the normal lawmaking process.<\/p>\n<p>What are Young\u2019s prospects?\u00a0 This year, Rep. Davis convinced the GOP-dominated House to pass the bill, but like every House reform, the REINS Act died from inaction in the Democratic Senate.\u00a0 But if after the November elections the GOP can hold the House and gain the Senate with conservative reformers \u2013 or Republican incumbents scared straight by conservative primary challengers \u2013 then expect to see the REINS Act make great strides towards passage.<\/p>\n<p>Our constitutional system needs Congress to get back in the game on regulation, if for no other reason than to reestablish accountability between the laws that govern us and the people we elect to pass them.<\/p>\n<p>Good on Davis for picking Young to succeed him.\u00a0 Now voters in the several states need to send another crop of conservative reformers to the Senate to help him out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The important reform bill, the Regulations of the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, is getting new champion with the retirement of Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY). 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