Executive Rule Making News Today

>> look at the red, white, and blue on the bridge. brian, you spend a lot of time there. is it always like that or is it just for memorial day? >> brian: no. i didnt even notice. i drove over there. there was a big memorial day sara outside of jaguar stadium they got the second biggest wall in the whole country commemorating all those who fought in northern florida lost their lives dating back to world war i. there is a huge thing there. i drove over the bridge. i didnt look at the sid...

Members of the House and Senate GOP have introduced proposals they say would address the "unrestrained rulemaking authority of the executive branch."

>> but these executive orders, yes, they might be a counter balance to the fact that congress is less productive than wed often like them to be, but they dont face the scrutiny of a bill, of a legislative effort. >> they dont face that scrutiny. judicial review comes later and we know the travel ban situation is up and blocked. and some we dont know exactly how they are working. in other words, he did one order that said every new regulation you have to get rid of two, and then we looked in to i...

>> why still no plan to replace it? >> we have a plan to replace it. we have plenty of ideas to replace it. and youll see as the weeks and months unfold what were talk about replacing it, how we can get better choices with lower prices by not having the cost of government take over health care, which is causing all this problem in the first place. >> the key part is plenty of ideas for replacement. ideas are nice. but this is a law. it has over 2,000 pages of statutory text. thats a point republ...

To cite all the time. and we looked it up. it has another 10,000 pages now of executive rule making. you cant amend and replace with plenty of ideas. you have to write out your own plan, show people what theyre voting on, and see if you have the support for it. congressional republicans know that, even if they want to pretend this is more simple. but does their incoming president know that? unclear. today as congress convened and these actual questions started piling up, trump showed republicans...