Speech #980066942

I want to commend the gentleman from Georgia for scheduling this special order on the Supreme Courts recent decision on legislative veto. As my colleagues are wellaware from numerous news accounts. last Thursday. June 23. 1983. the Court. in Immigration and Naturalization Service against Chadha. held the oneHouse veto unconstitutional on the theory that the Congress legislated a result at variance with the decision by the Attorney General on a deportation case in violation of the bicameralism and presentment clauses of article I of the Constitution. Because of the Courts broadly written opinion. it is generally believed that all legislative veto mechanisms. which are estimated to appear in approximately 200 Federal laws. are in jeopardy and will. in short order. be found to be unconstitutional. Indeed. a preliminary analysis of the statutes which fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Energy and Commerce indicates that there are at least 24 statutes which contain some form of legislative veto.