Republican leaders of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee are directing key agency leaders to evaluate how the recent Supreme Court ruling that overturned the so-called Chevron doctrine will affect their rulemaking and court decisions. In place since the mid-1980s, the Chevron doctrine provided federal agencies with deference in legal challenges to their rulemaking and other activities.
“Unsurprisingly, Chevron unleashed decades of successively broader, more costly, and more invasive assertions of agency power over citizens’ lives, liberty, and property, as agencies adopted expansive interpretations of assertedly ambiguous statutes, demanding courts defer to them,” said Rep. Sam Graves (R-Missouri), the chairman of the committee, and Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), chairman of T&I’s oversight committee, in letters to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and EPA Administrator Michael Regan.
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