In our first Committee vote of the year, the NH State-Federal Relations Committee voted today to approve HCR 4, the Regulation Freedom Amendment Resolution sponsored by Rep. Dan Itse.
It should be scheduled for floor action very soon.
With Republican majorities in a record 68 state legislative chambers we look forward to many more chambers passing Resolutions (or circulating letters of support) similar to the Resolutions already passed in 19 legislative chambers urging Congress to propose the Regulation Freedom Amendment
to require that Congress approve major new regulations.
Now is the time to make the regulatory reforms being proposed by the new administration permanent, so they cannot be undone by a future administration without the consent of Congress.
Three times in American history starting with the Bill of Rights pressure from the states has helped to force Congress to propose Amendments states wanted.
More than 900 state legislators, 7 governors and former governors including Mike Pence, a unanimous vote of the RNC, language in the 2016 GOP Platform, the American Farm Bureau, and the National Taxpayers Union have endorsed the Regulation Freedom Amendment.
Together we can make permanently ending "regulation without representation" one of the defining issues for 2017 and beyond.
If you have any questions, or would like to be more involved in this effort, please contact me.
Roman Buhler
Director
The Madison Coalition
202 255 5000
www.RegulationFreedom.Org
Rbuhler@MadisonCoalition.org
Here is the text of the NH Resolution:
17-0504
05/04
State of New Hampshire
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
A Resolution urging Congress to propose the Regulation Freedom amendment to the United States Constitution
Whereas, Locke's Second Treatise on Government is recognized as a foundational document upon which American government is designed; and
Whereas, Locke's discourse on legislative power concludes with the nondelegation doctrine stating, "The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands. The legislative neither must nor can transfer the power of making laws to any body else, or place it any where, but where the people have;" and
Whereas, the growth and abuse of federal regulatory authority threaten our Constitutional liberties, including those guaranteed by the Bill of Rights in the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments of our Constitution; and
Whereas, federal regulators must be more accountable to elected representatives of the people and not immune from such accountability; and
Whereas, the United States House of Representatives has passed with bipartisan support H.R. 427, the Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, known as the REINS Act, to require that Congress approve major new federal regulations before they can take effect; and
Whereas, even if enacted, a law may be repealed or waived by a future Congress and President; and
Whereas, an amendment to the United States Constitution does not require the President's approval and cannot be waived by a future Congress and President; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the New Hampshire General Court does hereby urge that the United States Congress vote to propose the Regulation Freedom amendment to the United States Constitution as follows:
"Whenever one quarter of the members of the United States House of Representatives or the United States Senate transmits to the President their written declaration of opposition to a proposed federal regulation, it shall require a majority vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate to adopt that regulation."
That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the house clerk to each member of Congress, and the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate of every state legislature in the United States.
