Real Solutions The bureaucrats’ legitimacy crisis
More realistically, there’s a nascent movement to give Congress more capacity (that is, staff and resources) to oversee the executive branch. Wallach and Kevin Kosar of the R Street Institutefloated the idea last fall of a congressional regulation office that would “serve as a Madisonian structural response to the profound power imbalance between the first and second branches.” Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah has been pushing similar ideas as part of what he’s dubbed the “Article One Project.”
