'You Interrupted Me!': Lauren Boebert Clashes With Witness During Hearing On Regulations

is bobert from Colorado for five minutes thank you Mr chairman Miss katzen should bureaucrats Implement rules and regulations that are not delegated by Congress it's not the bureaucrats that do it it is it would be an agency the bureaucrats working in the agencies should they be in charge of enforcing rules and regulations not delegated to them by Congress no and that does not know her well miss katzen you stated while some elected officials accuse the agencies of running amok no agency is a free agent and they can only do which Congress has delegated them correct I agree with that however we see in agencies all the time rules and regulations that are enforced on the American people that were not delegated to them by Congress for instance just in the last five years the Bureau of Alcohol Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms has changed its long-standing positions on firearm products three times through administrative Fiat would would you agree with that process in the ATF I have no quarrel with what the ATF has done because in each and you said here that they can only do which was delegated to them so now these changes have resulted in products that were previously classified as lawful by the ATF now they're being considered illegal or regulated under the National Firearms Act and more recently we've seen with the atf's rule to categorize pistol braces on these stabilizing braces as heavily regulated short barreled rifles essentially making homeowners excuse me gun owners nearly of obtaining maybe 40 million Firearms with stabilizing braces criminals overnight felons even and so miss uh katzen um would you say that this is an abuse of that separation of power because that rule is not something that Congress has delegated but the ATF has taken it upon itself to regulate this rule that they created to make millions of Americans fire felons with respect I was trying to answer your question before you interrupted me to say that the ATF had in each of these instances sufficient statutory Authority from Congress and that that any challenges to that miss katzen it is my time so Congress never authorized the ATF to ban pistol braces Congress never authorized the ATF to do that to make millions of Americans felons overnight and so I would go back to your statement that you said in your testimony that these agencies are not free agencies and they can only do which Congress has delegated to them to do Congress is not specific excuse me my time no ma'am it's my time thank you oh you're tested in My Views it is my time thank you you stated Congress delegates but then some officials are quick to condemn the agencies for doing what they are told to do carrying out the law well last year the Biden administration's EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers attempted to regulate wetlands and ditches under the Clean Water Act that's clearly not the intent of the Clean Water Act the intent of the Clean Water Act was to manage Federal major federal navigable Waters so now this rule was recently upended by the Supreme Court's recent decision now would you agree that the Biden Administration has a pattern of purposefully misinterpreting the law in order to carry out their their political agenda no ma'am I think in fact that the law keeps changing and the Supreme Court had a very important here in Congress so this was the intent of the Clean Water Act and I have not seen that change so I would say that this is another example of the Biden Administration and the EPA misinterpreting the law to carry out their own political agenda now with Miss Jackson when discussing regulations made by the Biden Administration in your testimony you also state are these regulations determined uh detrimental to our well-being hardly are they trying tying us up in red tape certainly not well going back to wotus and the Sackett family who the This Clean Water Act decision impacted the family was threatened with fines of ten thousand dollars per day had their property misclassified as a wetland and were prevented from building their family home it may not be a 2.5 million dollar home like yours but that sounds like a lot of red tape excuse me I really take that as a personal do you disagree my home do you disagree that this was an overall I disagreements the lady's time has expired Mr chairman um could we just ask all of our good members to respect the civility in decorum and the uh Integrity of the witnesses who've come forward at their own expense to testify uh before us today and in an insult is not a substitute for an argument the chair would advise the members to adhere to the house standard of decorum and proceed in order Miss Crockett of tech

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Length: 5min 56sec (356 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2023