Tue Dec 7, 2021 – 8:32 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — A Republican Congressman used a hearing on December 1 to bring attention to the “egregious abuses of power” undertaken by the Biden White House.
U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina raised concerns during a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the law that lays out how regulations should be promulgated.
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“There’s this multi-layered potentially undermining of the constitutional structure embedded in the APA,” Bishop said during the hearing last Wednesday. He said he could summarize the problems as a “concentration of power in a legislative enforcement and adjudicative power in one place in the agency as opposed to the Madisonian design.”
“The founders were careful to separate power and create separate parts of government vying against each other [because] it insulates a lot of federal policy, maybe the primary generator of federal policy, from democratic control,” Congressman Bishop said.
One example, Rep. Bishop said, is President Biden’s use of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard that mandated vaccines or weekly testing on employees of private businesses. That mandate is currently pending litigation and cannot be enforced while
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