by jpitney | Jan 4, 2020 | Bureaucracy, Congress, Oversight, Uncategorized
William Yeatman at Cato: Of course, Big Government today is largely coterminous with the administrative state. From 1995 to 2017, the executive branch issued over 92,000 rules, compared to 4,400 laws enacted by Congress. The regulatory agencies behind all this...
by jpitney | Dec 14, 2019 | Congress, Oversight, Uncategorized
Rep. Charles Wiggins (R-CA) served on the House Judiciary Committee. From his 2000 obituary: Judge Charles E. Wiggins, a Republican congressman from California who was influential in the Watergate hearings and switched from defending President Richard M. Nixon to...
by jpitney | Nov 12, 2019 | Congress, Deliberation, Oversight, Uncategorized
Casey Burgat at R Street: The legislative branch simply does not have the levels of staff resources, funding or expertise to conduct effective oversight of the executive branch, including—and perhaps even especially—on matters of foreign affairs, intelligence and...
