Congress must curtail the secret lawmaking of the administrative state

Congress must curtail the secret lawmaking of the administrative state


Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner‘s Restoring America project will feature its latest series, “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To read more from this series, click here.

The rule of law is impossible if federal administrative agencies make secret, informal laws with little to no oversight from elected lawmakers. And yet, this is exactly what has been happening in the United States for many years. It’s time for Congress to rein in this practice and restore the principle of separation of powers to our constitutional order.

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