{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-schmitt-lead-colleagues-in-reclaiming-legislative-power-post-chevron/", "Lummis, Schmitt lead colleagues in reclaiming legislative power post-Chevron", "2024-07-16", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "Cynthia M. Lummis", "L000571", "www.lummis.senate.gov", "lummis", "https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014 Following the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) joined Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) in launching a working group to reclaim legislative authority wrongfully afforded to administrative agencies and restore this power back to where it belongs: with duly-elected members of Congress and the people they serve.\n\n\u201cThe Constitution is clear: decision-making powers lie with the democratically-elected members of Congress, not unelected bureaucrats,\u201d said Lummis. \u201cFor far too long, the Chevron doctrine gave this administration carte blanche, empowering President Biden\u2019s agencies to pander to its far-left base and drown the people of Wyoming in a sea of regulations. In light of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling, I am partnering with my colleagues to take the necessary steps to restore legislative powers to the people and finally put these runaway agencies back in their place.\u201d\n\nThe Post-Chevron working group will meet regularly to assess the monumental decision in Loper Bright and determine how to best limit the unlawful exercise of power by the administrative state as well as how the Senate can more effectively legislate on matters that regularly would\u2019ve been left up to agency deference.\n\nSenator Lummis and her colleagues are also in the process of sending oversight letters to 101 agencies that have published more than 50 final rules since the year 2000. Those agencies will include the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Transportation.\n\nIn the letters, the senators will ask for more information on ongoing rulemaking, civil enforcement actions and adjudications by said agencies and how the Loper Bright decision impacts all of those actions moving forward, so that the senators can better conduct oversight over those agencies.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"]], "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://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-schmitt-lead-colleagues-in-reclaiming-legislative-power-post-chevron/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9003402665257454, "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"}