Cass Sunstein Quotes
In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't.
Sunstein, Cass R. "Congress and Regulation." Bloomberg View, Bloomberg L.P., 2016.
Federal rulemaking is a complicated arcane process as a result of Congress making it harder for Federal agencies to make rules. Although Congress could legislate any rules, many members prefer not to go on ecord as supporting some rules. Others watch what the public reaction is and if good, they support it and take credit and if bad, they complain of the "overreach of unelected bureaucrats". However, they do not want rulemaking to be fast or efficient; they want the time to decide where they stand. IN 2017 The incomming Trump Administration wanted to repeal many of the Federal Rules that had been made in the previous Obama Administration. However Trump and his team was not very experienced politically and ran against the politicians. They were surprised that it was as hard to repeal Federal Rules as it was to make them in the first place as this quotation explained
In general, there are so many versions of a bill as it goes through the Congressional process, that the members of Congress do not read each and every draft. Some do not read any of the drafts and leave it to the Committee; others trust their staffs or their party leadership. More often they trust the lobbyists who donate to their campaigns. Sometimes, the bills are so large—many thousands of pages that the members of Congress lose track of all the aspects of the proposed law and only read a few sections in which they may have participated in debate. Often, the only people who read the entire bill are the lobbyists and one or two of committee staff.
the largest economic and banking reform in decades The Dodd-Frank reform legislation was very complicated. It was extensively debated including attacks against provisions that were not even in the bill (See {632833}.) Few of the supporters and fewer of the opponents understood the bill. Many members on both sides had not even read the entire bill. It passed.
He had been specifically asked about the Federal Affordable Care Act—Obamacare, which he had opposed when it was debated.
Cass Robert Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics. He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008). He was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.
