Congress and regulation: How to bolster legislative oversight capacity

The Constitution designates Congress as the lawmaking institution in our federal government. Yet, an enormous amount of lawmaking gets done by the executive branch through regulations.

Philip Wallach and Kevin Kosar make the case for bolstering congressional capacity through the creation of a Congressional Regulation Office. This corps of nonpartisan wonks would be assigned the duty of helping Congress ensure that regulators follow the Constitution’s directive to faithfully execute the law. Their article laying out the what’s and why’s of a Congressional Regulation Office is here.