Speech #980264257

I rise in support of H.R. 6225. and commend the chairman of our committee and the ranking member for this legislation. It happens to be very significant legislation in that it is undertaking to ratify all of the reorganization plans which have heretofore been implemented by previous administrations under reorganization authority. After the Supreme Court case involving the legislative veto. known as Immigration and Naturalization Service against Chadha. a great deal of doubt was left as to whether Congress would have continued to delegate authority when a legislative veto was part of the statute. or whether that was so severable that the authority to delegate rulemaking or other action could continue even if the legislative veto in the particular form in question was held to be unconstitutional. The train wreck of government which the Supreme Court created in that case. in which they demonstrated a rather abysmal ignorance of our system of government. has left a great mess to be cleaned up now. The problem is that only one or two actions such as the one that is now being taken today have been put in place to do something about the problem.