But a big part of the problem is that tax lawyers dominate the tax-lawmaking process.
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After a wave of environmental policy making in the 1970s and 1980s, new lawmaking slowed.
The parapolitics scandal has called into question the legitimacy of Congress, and almost paralysed lawmaking.
Considerable lawmaking power is delegated to unelected bureaucrats at agencies, something that must be addressed by Congress.
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And if the record indicates a penchant for lawmaking from the bench, the nominee should be blocked.
The first year since full lawmaking powers have been ones of consultations, white papers and green papers.
The result of all that lawmaking: lack of coordination, spotty sharing of best practices and ultimately, little accountability.
Trial lawyers have already upended constitutional lawmaking with their successful assaults on ever-more-unpopular tobacco companies and gun manufacturers.
This is a different animal, based on members trading in companies where they have oversight or lawmaking power.
After July 1, lawmaking will be undertaken by a provisional legislature chosen by the same Selection Committee that anointed Tung.
It left his colleagues stunned by just the thought of lawmaking in the absence of one of the most prolific legislators ever to serve.
She and Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, introduced legislation virtually identical to McCain's Senate proposal, which could speed up the lawmaking process by allowing simultaneous debate in both houses.
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Congress has lawmaking authority and writes the Internal Revenue Code.
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Rather, institutionalized disdain for separation of powers defines modern lawmaking.
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Having gone from leadership of the three major lawmaking institutions down to just one, House Republicans may vote in a much more combative leader in their suddenly uphill fight.
Recent examples further clarify that the 800 pound gorilla of lawmaking is the Administrative State rather than Congress: the 66 page-long Sarbanes-Oxley legislation has spawned hundreds of pages of regulations.
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About the only time you hear criticism of judicial lawmaking from legislators is when judges, using some obtuse or plainly wrong technicality, let loose individuals who appear guilty of outrageous crimes.
Officials and outside experts point out that a lack of expertise is also a challenge for the parliament, whose role in lawmaking in complex areas such as finance is more critical than ever.
Labour thinks that the Scottish parliament can avoid this sort of error by having a more careful lawmaking process in which committees take evidence on bills from interested parties before the debate starts.
Addressing over-delegation of regulatory lawmaking power, perhaps ore than any other step, will prioritize the issue of benefits by making Congress accountable, answerable to voters, for the vast body of rules issued by unelected bureaucrats.
There were the gestures towards bipartisanship lawmaking and a shift away from the brinksmanship that has paralyzed our system that we heard from Obama on the campaign trail, in his inaugural address and during the fiscal cliff negotiations.
The American people have been starved of the kind of bipartisan, compromising lawmaking that we need to the point that they believe a man who has done nothing but divide them is working for their best interest above his own agenda.
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Those who hold true to this notion believe that denying the benefit of private deliberation and negotiation in the lawmaking process a process that has more in common with the unpleasant experience of stuffing sausage than it does with our more romantic notions of democracy in action somehow leads to a more informed public which, in turn, produces better laws.
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