Writing for the Daily Signal, Republican Congressman Rob Bishop announced plans to use the Congressional Review Act to push back against what he describes as the Obama administration’s 8-year effort to “sidestep Congress” through a “relentless campaign of unilateral, overreaching rules, orders, and memorandums” designed to block energy and resource development in western states.
Regardless of one’s position on energy or the environment, one has to wonder: where was Congressman Bishop when Barack Obama was actually in office directing the activities he claims to be so outraged about? The Congressional Review Act has been the law of the land for over 2 decades and has been in force throughout the entirety of Congressman Bishop’s career on Capitol Hill. Why is he suddenly deploying it now, when his own party enjoys unilateral control of Washington, DC? And against a President who isn’t even in office any more?
Could it be that Congressman Bishop is responding not to Barack Obama, but to the fact that the House of Representatives in his home state of Utah passed the Convention of States Project's application calling for an Article V Convention today?
Congress has a long history of moving to act when state legislatures unify around Article V, starting with the Bill of Rights and continuing with the abolition of slavery, direct election of Senators, the repeal of Prohibition, and term limits for the President. They want to be in control of reforms that will apply to Washington, not have them imposed by the people's duly elected representatives in the state legislatures. The other thing they have a long history of is doing as little as they possibly can to deflect scrutiny, then returning to the status quo as quickly as they possibly can. Let’s not let them get away with it this time.
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