Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
The Write the Laws Act would bar Congress from delegating any legislative power to executive agencies, the President, courts, states, or other entities. It defines prohibited delegations to include creating or clarifying criminal offenses or public-facing regulations not "fully and completely defined" in statute.
Progressives emphasize risks to environmental and civil protections
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly articulated substantive policy change that establishes a new statutory nondelegation regime with defined prohibitions, an enforcement mechanism, and a GAO inventory requirement, but it leaves substantial interpretive and operational details to courts and future processes.
The Write the Laws Act would bar Congress from delegating any legislative power to executive agencies, the President, courts, states, or other entities.
It defines prohibited delegations to include creating or clarifying criminal offenses or public-facing regulations not "fully and completely defined" in statute.
The bill requires the Comptroller General to report statutes that contain prohibited delegations, voids noncompliant statutes or rules, creates a private cause of action with de novo review, and applies to actions taken 90 days after enactment.
Sweeping, litigation-inviting constitutional change with major regulatory consequences and limited compromise features—low likelihood absent significant bipartisan support.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly articulated substantive policy change that establishes a new statutory nondelegation regime with defined prohibitions, an enforcement mechanism, and a GAO inventory requirement, but it leaves substantial interpretive and operational details to courts and future processes.
Progressives emphasize risks to environmental and civil protections
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Progressives emphasize risks to environmental and civil protections
Likely strongly opposed because the bill would sharply curtail agency rulemaking used to implement environmental, workplace, consumer, and civil-rights protections.
It risks removing practical regulatory tools and substituting slow, politically fraught statute-writing for routine implementation.
Supporters' rule-of-law arguments are acknowledged, but expected harms to public protections and enforcement are the primary concern.
Views the bill as addressing a real constitutional question about nondelegation but worries about practical disruption.
Appreciates accountability goals but is concerned about rapidly invalidating large bodies of existing law and shifting heavy drafting burdens to an already-overworked Congress.
Would favor technical fixes, phased approaches, clearer standards, and resources for Congress to perform new responsibilities.
Likely strongly supportive because the bill restores legislative power and curbs agency rulemaking seen as executive overreach.
Values returning substantive policy choices to elected representatives and limiting unelected bureaucracies.
May note practical implementation challenges but generally prefers strict nondelegation and judicial enforcement.
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Sweeping, litigation-inviting constitutional change with major regulatory consequences and limited compromise features—low likelihood absent significant bipartisan support.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize risks to environmental and civil protections
Sweeping, litigation-inviting constitutional change with major regulatory consequences and limited compromise features—low likelihood absen…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a clearly articulated substantive policy change that establishes a new statutory nondelegation regime with defined prohibitions, an enforcement mechanism, and a GA…
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