During a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in July, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) spoke about the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo case which effectively ended a Supreme Court precedent known as the Chevron Doctrine which deferred the interpretation of Congressional law to relevant agencies instead of the court.
00:00Opening statement. Thanks for being here. Thank you Mr. Chairman and thank you to all of our witnesses joining today. This sounds kind of a more obscure kind of a topic but this is one that things that will have the effect of every single one of us.
00:20Every time we pass a law federal agencies have to implement it. Usually that includes issuing regulations and creating a process that makes sure that those laws are followed. Sometimes the agency gets a little too excited or goes a little too far and sometimes they don't go far enough. And there that's where the courts are added to this conversations.
00:45Last year's decision, Looper Bright, changed the way the courts have been treating federal agency decision making for the last 40 years. That is a huge change and we're going to need to figure out how we all have to adjust.
01:01When we got too tied up in D.C. speak about this stuff, people tune out. But how we have to respond this change could be the difference between whether the water that we drink is clean or the cars that we drive are safe and the air we breathe won't make us sick.
01:21We need to remember this is really about making sure that we are explaining to these folks trying to make it work on time. Provide for their families and save for retirement.
01:35The only answer we really need to get to here is how does this change things and what do we need now change as a result? I look forward to hearing to our witnesses.
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