Courts have long held that Congress cannot “bind” future Congresses—that is, it can’t force a future session of Congress to carry on its own policies. That practice, formally known as “legislative entrenchment,” is seen as privileging one group of lawmakers over another, “binding” future to the priorities set in the present.
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Your comment: “Courts have long held that Congress cannot “bind” future Congresses—that is, it can’t force a future session of Congress to carry on its own policies.”
I think you are right there, 2banana. Hensarling should file a bill to defund this leftist boondoggle pronto. Let the ACLU sue, but if the House doesn’t buckle, Richard Cordray and the rest of Fauxcahontas’s hand-picked Stalinists at this agency can work for no pay.