Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Michigan State Law Review
Abstract
Recently, critics of the administrative state have been urging Congress to reassert itself and rein in regulatory action that they maintain is both undesirable as a matter of policy and in violation of constitutional principles. This anti-regulatory position is unwarranted. While regulatory agencies have indeed been more active in recent decades—in part due to increasing gridlock in Congress—the resulting regulatory actions produced large net benefits to the American people and were carried out pursuant to authority delegated by Congress and reviewed by the courts. By contrast, more robust action by Congress, as long as Congress continues to exhibit its current pathologies, is unlikely to be beneficial. Furthermore, in a troubling development, the Trump Administration has turned away from cost-benefit analysis in order to carry out its anti-regulatory agenda, disregarding an established bipartisan consensus that stretched back several decades.
First Page
795
Volume
2018
Publication Date
2018
Recommended Citation
Richard L. Revesz,
Congress and the Executive: Challenging the Anti-Regulatory Narrative,
2018
Michigan State Law Review
795
(2018).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/927
