The Case for Agency Authority

This is my case for why I am pro-agency rulemaking authority, and you should be too.

1. Agencies Are Nimbler Than Congress, responding to changing circumstances and technology in closer to real time.
2. Agencies Have Relevant Expertise -- people who work at agencies tend to build deeper, specialized knowledge on the issues within their agency’s mandate.
3. Opportunities for Public Participation -- whenever an agency wants to promulgate a rule, it must first put forward the rule for public comment. And, ulike your member of Congress, who can file your comment in a folder never to be consulted again, the agency actually has to take the public comments into account and respond to them in the final rule.