This is the Cater Daily Podcast for Wednesday, December 8, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

It's an opportunity to begin to put at least some of the onus of regulating back

onto Congress.

And no, it's not Congress that's doing it. onus of regulating back onto Congress.

And no, it's not Congress that's doing it.

Will Yeatman is a research fellow in the Cato Institute's Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional

Studies.

He details the new case before the US Supreme Court that may establish

that there are some powers that Congress can't easily delegate away.

Congress has a job to do. They pass laws, they conduct oversight, they are supposed to keep a

tight grip on the executive branch, at least when you read the structure of the Constitution.

If Congress wanted to give the president a we workspace and sell the White House, they could do that. But the administrative agencies of the

executive branch have grown so large and unwieldy and largely it's Congress's fault, right?

Indeed, and the problem here would be Congress's

set it and forget it approach to domestic policymaking. by this I mean rather than take on difficult decisions

itself Congress over the last hundred years has in essence granted these broad delegations is what they're known as of authority of law making authority to an alphabet soup worth of regulatory agencies.

And again, the impetus here has always been passing the buck, avoiding responsibility for big decisions, requiring regulatory

agencies to take them on, and then when they disagree with the agency, the lawmaker can

say,

ah ha, I mean, you know, we've got, you know,

this is regulatory power, one, a mock,

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