Senators convened Wednesday to discuss how Congress should adjust their lawmaking to align with last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling limiting agency rulemaking power.
At a meeting of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee, Chair James Lankford (R-Okla.) told those assembled that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loper Bright v. Raimondo should be a “clarion call” to legislate.
The June 2024 court ruling overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine, which for decades gave agencies license to interpret ambiguous laws. The ruling put more of an onus on Congress to craft specific legislation.
Nearly 14 months later, Congress is still mulling how the change impacts lawmakers. But bipartisan members of the Border Management, Federal Workforce and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee were in agreement that the ruling has significant implications for congressional procedures.
