Posted on 09/18/2007 12:07:51 PM PDT by bs9021
With ever-increasing federal intervention in state affairs, delineations between Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “Creative Federalism” and Bill Clinton’s “New Age Federalism” have lost meaning, denoting pale differences between degrees of federal hegemony. The federal bureaucratic expansion has made some conservatives nervous that the welfare state will irreversibly centralize government into small department kingdoms, headed by unelected bureaucratic kingpins. “If you strip all the legalese here that shrouds the debate,” asserted Georgetown Law Professor David Vladeck at a September 12 Senate Judiciary hearing, “what is going on here is that the administration is pushing silently and behind closed regulatory agency doors a public policy campaign that I don't think they could get through Congress.” In other words, Vladeck believes that administration officials are circumventing the legislative process in an attempt to institute special interest policies. Vladeck was responding to several recent court battles, in which the defendant corporations claimed consumer liability immunity using federal agency regulations.
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