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Rob Bishop urges stronger state role in federal rulemaking; Utah House backs resolution to create a states'check
Summary
Former U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop told the Utah House on Feb. 10 that "federalism" is the remedy to overreaching regulation; the House passed a concurrent resolution, HCR 6, supporting a constitutional amendment to let two-thirds of state legislatures override certain federal administrative actions, 68-11.
SALT LAKE CITY — Former state House Speaker and U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop told the Utah House on Feb. 10 that the solution to regulatory overreach is to restore state authority and ‘‘federalism,’’ urging a constitutional mechanism to let the states formally check federal administrative actions.
Bishop, speaking after the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole to hear him, criticized several last-minute federal regulations and described a proposal he supports to give state legislatures an avenue to force reconsideration of executive orders or agency rules. "The solution to our problems in this nation is the…
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