Christopher DeMuth And Adam White on Reforming the Administrative State

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🗓️ 11 February 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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On how the president, Congress, and courts might go about reforming the administrative state. Christopher DeMuth of the Hudson Institute and Adam J. White of the Hoover Institution diagnose the problems of the modern administrative state and reflect on the often harmful role it plays in our politics. Both lawyers, they offer significant insight into how administrative agencies of the federal government have become increasingly unchecked during the last few decades. DeMuth and White then consider how the Trump administration, Congress, and the courts might go about reforming the administrative state and restoring its accountability.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal.
0:15.0	Welcome back to Conversations.
0:18.0	I'm very pleased to be joined today by two good friends,
0:21.0	Kristen Youth, served in the Reagan administration, head of the American Enterprise Institute
0:25.1	for a couple of decades and now a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute.
0:29.2	And Adam White, who didn't serve in the Reagan administration, where were you in elementary?
0:33.4	Yeah, it was in the elementary school
0:34.5	during the Reagan administration,
0:36.2	but also a lawyer, two lawyers here.
0:38.4	This is the first time we've ever done that
0:39.6	on conversations, kind of frightening.
0:42.0	It is a problem, right? And a, what, you're not a
0:45.4	Distinguished Fellow? Not yet. You're a research fellow. Research Fellow at
0:48.8	the Hoover Institution here in Washington. Two of our leading students and writers on questions of administrative law,
0:55.3	the administrative state, the constitutional separation of powers, etc.
0:59.5	So I thought I would all learn a lot for you today by asking you about that big range of topics.
1:07.0	Donald Trump says Washington is broken, the system is broken, is it?
1:11.0	And what is the, and is it, and what is the real way which it's broken as opposed to very superficial
1:17.4	problems.
1:18.4	Chris.
1:20.4	I think he's essentially correct. The system is broken if we think of our
1:27.2	constitutional system of Congress writing the laws, making policy, and the executive branch executing the laws.
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