Role of Congress in Monitoring Administrative Rulemaking: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 47, H.R. 2727, and H.R. 2990, September 12, 1996 |
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Page 64 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Page 27 - Major rule" means any regulation that is likely to result in: (1) An annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; (2) A major Increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, Federal, State, or local government agencies, or geographic regions; or (3) Significant adverse effects on competition, employment investment, productivity, innovation, or on the ability of United States-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic or export markets.
Page 25 - ... we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it...
Page 25 - I shall undertake, in the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.
Page 67 - The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands; for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.
Page 67 - The Congress is not permitted to abdicate or to transfer to others the essential legislative functions with which it is thus vested.
Page 25 - Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan, 293 US 388 (1935); ALA Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 US 495 (1935).
Page 80 - WILSON could not approve of the Section as it stood, and could not give up his judgment to any supposed objections that might arise among the people. He considered himself as Acting & responsible for the welfare 'of millions not immediately represented in this House.
Page 6 - The motion shall be highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
Page 75 - . . . every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary . . . shall be presented to the President of the United States...