THE RNC HAS ENDORSED THE REGULATION FREEDOM AMENDMENT!

“We call on Congress to begin reclaiming their constitutional powers from the bureaucratic state by requiring that major new federal regulations be approved by Congress before they can take effect, such as through the Regulation Freedom Amendment.”
 

THE RNC HAS ENDORSED THE REGULATION FREEDOM AMENDMENT!

The Republican National Committee has "unanimously" voted for a Resolution supporting the Regulation Freedom Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require that major new federal regulations be approved by Congress before they can take effect.

Support for the Amendment now includes more than 900 state legislators, 6 Governors, the American Farm Bureau, the National Taxpayers Union and political leaders from across the nation.

19 State Legislative Chambers have passed Resolutions urging Congress to propose the Regulation Freedom Amendment.

These chambers are:

• Indiana-House and Senate
• Georgia-Senate
• Tennessee-House and Senate
• North Dakota-House and Senate
• South Dakota-House and Senate
• Wyoming-House and Senate
• Idaho-House
• Utah-House and Senate
• Missouri Senate
• West Virginia House and Senate
• Kansas House
• Arkansas House

(A majority of the Members of the Arkansas Senate have also signed a letter endorsing the Amendment)

Similar Resolutions are pending in other states.

House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R, TX) is another key supporter. Among the other Members of Congress who have endorsed the Amendment include Californians Tom McClintock and Doug LaMalfa.

Key Donald Trump supporters back the Amendment including Maine Gov. Paul LePage, and Trump's Energy Task Force Chair Congressman Kevin Cramer (R, ND). Former presidential candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich have also endorsed the Amendment U.S.

We are is leading a bipartisan effort to mobilize state and congressional leaders to force Congress to curb the authority of federal regulators. Ending the fear of capricious Federal regulators by requiring that Congress approve major new federal regulations would be a powerful way to protect our Constitutional rights and accelerate economic growth!

Every voting Republican Member of the of the U.S. House along with some courageous Democrats recently supported the "REINS" Act to require that Congress approve major new federal regulations, but Congress is too divided to override a Presidential veto and such a law also could be challenged in Court or repealed or weakened by a future Congress.

However just as states forced Congress to propose the Bill of Rights, 2/3 of the states who favored the same Amendment to curb regulators might well force Congress to propose it.

The Text of the Regulation Freedom Amendment is:

"Whenever one quarter of the Members of the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate transmit to the President their written declaration of opposition to a proposed federal regulation, it shall require a majority vote of the House and Senate to adopt that regulation."

The 31 states with GOP majorities in the state legislature, along with reasonable Democrats in other states such as KY, where the Democratic House Majority Leader has endorsed it, NM, a pro-energy state and IA, a pro-agriculture state could add up to a 2/3 majority of 34 states that could force Congress to act. ME, MN, CO and WA are also possibilities.

Even the credible threat that states might force Congress to act could deter regulators and force elected officials and candidates to answer a simple question: "Should regulators keep their power to dictate from Washington, or should they be made more accountable to elected officials?"

Polling shows that voters, by a 2-1 margin favor the Regulation Freedom Amendment. The issue unites friends of limited government and attracts Republicans, Independents and Democrats. The legislatures of 7 States have already passed laws that strengthen their ability to force Congress to act: Indiana, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia Utah, South Dakota and North Dakota. Similar legislation is pending in other states.

These "Faithful Delegate" laws give each state the power to replace and thus control potentially disobedient delegates if there ever was an Article V Convention. If enacted by a majority of states with a majority of the population, they would give those states the power to threaten a convention, a majority of whose delegates could be enforceably instructed to limit the Convention to just an up or down vote on the Amendment states wanted.

A U.S. House 10th Amendment-based "Madison Rule" or a similar pledge by a majority of U.S. Senators to recognize and enforce the Article V and 10th Amendment power of states to strictly limit the scope of a Convention would further strengthen the power of states to force Congress to propose a state-initiated Amendment, even if states never explicitly threatened a Convention.

Pete Sessions, Chairman of the House Rules Committee supports the "10th Amendment Rule".

If 2/3 of the states demonstrate their power to force Congress to propose an Amendment without a Convention, the entire balance of state and federal power will be transformed.

Faced with even the potential of such a threat Congress would almost certainly propose the Amendment states wanted to avoid the risk of a Convention that would be more powerful than Congress.

The bottom line is that a strategy of passing "Regulation Freedom Amendment" Resolutions by 34 states and either Faithful Delegate laws in a majority of states, a U.S. House Rule, or a pledge by 51 U.S. Senators could force Congress to propose the Regulation Freedom Amendment as early as 2017. faced with the threat of a potentially serious and growing effort to curb their power, regulators might become more willing to work with members of the regulated community on reasonable compromise.

Here is a partial list of political leaders who support the Regulation Freedom Amendment:

GOVERNORS

• Mike Pence, IN
• Phil Bryant, MS
• Matt Mead, WY
• Paul LePage, ME
• Bill Haslam, TN
• John Kasich OH

STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS

• NCSL (National Conference of State Legislators) 
• President and UT Senate President Pro-Tem Curt Bramble
• CSG (Council of State Governments) immediate past National Chair and TN Senate
• Majority Leader Mark Norris
• ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Counsel) Immediate Past National Chair and TX
• State and Federal Power Committee Chair Rep. Phil King
• TN Lt Gov/Senate President Ron Ramsey
• AR former Senate Majority Leader Eddie Jo Williams
• GA Senate President David Schafer
• GA NCSL Former President Sen. Don Balfour
• ID House Speaker Scott Bedke
• IN Senate President David Long
• IN House Speaker Brian Bosma
• IA House Speaker Linda Upmeyer
• KS House Speaker Ray Merrick
• KS House Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast
• KY Senate President Robert Stivers
• KY House Majority Leader Rocky Adkins
• MI Senate President Pro-Tem Tonya Shuitmaker
• MO Former Senate President Tom Dempsey
• NE Senate President Galen Hadley
• NC House Majority Leader Mike Hager
• ND Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner
• ND House Majority Leader Al Carlson
• ND Former CSG Chair Rep. Kim Koppelman
• OH former House Speaker Pro-Tem Matt Huffman
• TN House Speaker Beth Harwell
• UT Senate President Wayne Niederhauser
• VA House Maj. Caucus Chair Tim Hugo
• WV Senate President Bill Cole
• WY Senate Majority Leader Eli Bebout
• WY former House Speaker Tom Lubnau

BUSINESS GROUPS AND LEADERS

• American Farm Bureau Federation
• Indiana Manufacturers Association
• Indiana Bankers Association
• Kansas Chamber..United for Business
• Kansas Bankers Association
• Kansas Automobile Dealers Association
• Kansas Farm Bureau (KGFA))
• Kansas Grain and Feed Association
• Kansas Cooperative Council (KCC)
• Kansas Agribusiness Retailers Association (KARA)
• Kansas Building Industry Association
• Salt Lake Chamber, UT's Business Leader
• Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Tennessee Mining Association
• Tennessee Association of Health Underwriters
• Texas Alliance of Energy Producers
• Wyoming Stock Growers Association
• Terry Considine, CEO Considine Investment Company
• Ken Burgess, Chairman, First Capital Bank, Midland, TX, Chair, Texas Bankers Association.

LEGAL EXPERTS

• C. Boyden Gray, Former White House Counsel
• Chuck Cooper, Former Director, Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel
• John Ryder, General Counsel, RNC
• David Norcross, fmr. RNC Gen. Counsel Tom Sansonetti, fmr RNC Gen. Counsel Mark
• Braden, fmr RNC Gen. Counsel
• Bill Crocker, fmr RNC Gen. Counsel
• Curt Levy, Pres. Cmtee for Justice
• John Eastman, Director, Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence

CONSERVATIVE LEADERS

• American for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist
• Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
• Former House Appropriations Chair Bob Livingston.
• McCain 2008 National Chair Charlie Black
• Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin
• Let Freedom Ring President Colin Hanna
• Federalist Society Co-Founder David McIntosh
• Former RNC Chair and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson
• Former NRA President David Keene,
• Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell
• Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli
• Former National Federation of Women Chair Sue Lynch
• Former NFRW Chair Kathy Brugger
• Larry Pratt, Executive Director, Gun Owners of America.
• Steve Moore, Economist, former Member of the WSJ Editorial Board

CONSERVATIVE GROUPS

• National Taxpayers Union
• National Federation of Republican Women
• South Dakota Republican Party