I've a question. If EPA and such regulatory agencies are just that, and don't
pass laws, how do their regulations become laws? Arent these examples laws and
not regulations: "all cars built in 1999 must meet so and so standards", or "all
cars built since 1973 must have catalytic converters" or "all cars built with
emmision control devices must have such devices intact or you can't legally
drive them"?
Isn't it that, through the "blackmailing" of federal funding to states, states
must actually turn these regulations into laws or forfeit their federal funding?
So, in a round about way, some/most regulations at the federal level become laws
at the state level. No? Seatbelts are another one that come to mind.
Just curious
Bogart
STRICKLAND, Tate wrote:
> Very well said!!!
>
> BTW, I'm kind of a tree hugger (fyi) - still agree with you 1000%!
>
> Tate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Ludwick [SMTP:gludwick@csi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 7:28 PM
> To: Dakota Newsgroup
> Subject: DML: late daks w/o cats
>
> Someone took it upon themselves to deliver a "junior high civics 101" lesson
> to Jon on his recent post about "epa weenies".
> I can't find the post, but I think that before one delivers civic lessons to
> others, they need to pass the course.
> EPA, HUD, FDA and others are REGULATORY agencies. One of my biggest gripes
> about the federal government is that these Agencies CAN and DO create
> binding
> regulations WITHOUT congressional approval. There is no LAW that says
> bumpers have to pass a 5 mph crash test...it is a regulation! Clinton tried
> to end-run Congress by getting the FDA to declare their regulatory powers
> over tobacco. Courts said NO NO. Doesn't happen that way very often. OSHA
> has 1000's of regulations that Congress has never seen.
> The point is, you have unelected bureaucrats creating regulations with the
> power of laws....except you and I have little or no say in the process.
> These unelected folks have one goal in life...continually come up with new
> reasons to justify their existence (new dangers they must protect us from)
> and to grow in size and budget. That's It!
> Whew! Feel better now. :-)
> Gary
>
> The Internet - Living proof that 10,000 monkeys in a room with 10,000
> typewriters will NOT
> eventually duplicate the works of Shakespeare!
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