{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-congress-not-federal-bureaucrats-are-legislators", "Hageman: Congress, Not Federal Bureaucrats, are the Legislators", "2023-06-15", "2023", "2023-06", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Harriet M. Hageman", "H001096", "hageman.house.gov", "hageman", "https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted in favor of H.R. 288, the Separation of Powers Restoration Act (SOPRA) \u2013 a bill that she cosponsored. The bill would require courts to apply de novo review to all questions of law, including agencies\u2019 interpretations of statutes and rules. In addition, an amendment sponsored by Rep. Hageman was included in the final passage of H.R. 288 which would include interpretive rules, general statements of policy, and all other agency guidance as subject to the same requirements as statutes and rules.\n\nRep. Hageman stated, \u201cSOPRA addresses the obvious \u2013 that under our Constitution, courts are supposed to interpret the law. This legislation would override ill-advised Supreme Court precedents such as Chevron, USA Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., that require courts to defer to federal agency\u2019s interpretations of statutes and rules so long as they are \u201creasonable\u201d \u2013 even if they are incorrect. SOPRA will end improper judicial deference that gives agencies great ability to pass rules that carry the force of law and put a thumb on the scale in favor of the administration state and against the American people.\n\n\u201cSOPRA will also help to promote the electoral accountability of policymakers by ensuring that it is the policies of Congress \u2013 not those of unelected bureaucrats \u2013 that govern the American people.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:15:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-congress-not-federal-bureaucrats-are-legislators"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 4.669780842959881, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}