Speaker. today I am being joined by a group of my House Republican leadership colleagues in introducing the Regulatory Oversight and Control Act of 1983 in response to the recent Supreme Court decision holding the legislative veto device unconstitutional. Mr. Speaker. in its sweeping decision in the Chadha immigration case. and in its subsequent holdings in the FERC natural gas and FTC used car rule cases. the Supreme Court presumably thrown some five decades of carefully developed congressionalexecutive branch relations and some 200 legislative veto statutes out the window. It did so on grounds that this procedure to give one or both Houses of Congress a check on powers delegated to the Executive tilts the balance between the branches in favor of the Congress by excluding the President from the process. I will refrain here from a discourse on which branch currently has the upper hand in our Government. notwithstanding the existence of the legislative veto device.
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