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This Bloomberg Law article reports that following the SCOTUS’s elimination of Chevron deference, GOP senators are redoubling their efforts to deep six the “Deep State.” This excerpt says that step one has been to bombard agencies with inquiries about how the decision will impact their work:

GOP lawmakers cheered the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, arguing it will result in fewer burdensome regulations and give Congress more say in how laws are carried out. Their initial response to the ruling has been to overwhelm agencies with inquiries on the ruling’s impact on their day-to-day work.

To prepare for long-term change, 19 GOP senators last month formed a working group to examine how Congress should limit agency power and roll back regulations underpinned by Chevron. The senators themselves haven’t met as a group, but GOP staff from members’ offices and the Judiciary Committee are organizing subgroups and written to over 100 agencies, quizzing them on the decision’s impact in their ongoing rulemaking, civil enforcement actions, and adjudications.

The article says that Republican senators plan to propose more than a dozen bills targeting agency rulemaking, including legislation that would create a “separate regulatory office on Capitol Hill and expanding the statutory exceptions to the filibuster for agency rules.”

– John Jenkins