tangent4ronpaul
04-12-2013, 02:52 AM
There was no DEA during prohibition
Made me wonder if there were any regulatory agencies back then. I thought this cancer was created with the New Deal.
Yeppers! They did exist.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/496265/regulatory-agency
The first agency was the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), established by Congress in 1887 to regulate the railroads (and, later, motor carriers, inland waterways, and oil companies). It was abolished in 1996 but long served as the prototype of such an agency. The ICC was organized in the belief that a commission of specialists would know more about the railroads and their unique problems than Congress would, that a permanent commission could provide a more unbroken line of policy than could an elected body, and that it could combine the two functions of legislative and judicial that are necessary for effective regulation.
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The assertion of governmental control in other industries led to the creation of many other regulatory agencies modeled upon the ICC, chief among these being the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, 1914), Federal Communications Commission (FCC, 1934), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, 1934). In addition, regulatory powers were conferred upon the ordinary executive departments; the Department of Agriculture, for example, was given such powers under the Stockyards and Packers Act (1938). Much of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s was carried out through administrative regulation. During the same period a comparable development took place in state and municipal government.
regulatory agency, independent governmental commission established by legislative act in order to set standards in a specific field of activity, or operations, in the private sector of the economy and to then enforce those standards. Regulatory agencies function outside executive supervision. Because the regulations that they adopt have the force of law, part of these agencies’ function is essentially legislative; but because they may also conduct hearings and pass judgments concerning adherence to their regulations, they also exercise a judicial function—often carried out before a quasi-judicial official called an administrative law judge, who is not part of the court system.
Who are these "administrative law judge's" and how did they get that job? Can this be influenced?
Regulatory agencies use a commission system of administration, and their terms of office are fixed and often very long. Federal Reserve Board members, for instance, serve for 14 years. Regulatory agency commissions are appointed by the president, but their terms are staggered, so that no one president is able to drastically change the nature of the agency by the appointments he might make.
Like, say when Obama made a former Monsanto guy the head of the USDA and our food supply went down the crapper?
So who are the "Regulatory agency commissioners" and when are their terms up? Is it possible to influence who gets put on the list for consideration? I believe that the Senate can block approval of one, so we should be able to influence that. Is it possible to yank a current one?
I personally believe that just about all of the regulatory agencies are unconstitutional, and a cancer on our society. They need to be attacked, weakened and ideally abolished!
-t
Made me wonder if there were any regulatory agencies back then. I thought this cancer was created with the New Deal.
Yeppers! They did exist.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/496265/regulatory-agency
The first agency was the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), established by Congress in 1887 to regulate the railroads (and, later, motor carriers, inland waterways, and oil companies). It was abolished in 1996 but long served as the prototype of such an agency. The ICC was organized in the belief that a commission of specialists would know more about the railroads and their unique problems than Congress would, that a permanent commission could provide a more unbroken line of policy than could an elected body, and that it could combine the two functions of legislative and judicial that are necessary for effective regulation.
...
The assertion of governmental control in other industries led to the creation of many other regulatory agencies modeled upon the ICC, chief among these being the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, 1914), Federal Communications Commission (FCC, 1934), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, 1934). In addition, regulatory powers were conferred upon the ordinary executive departments; the Department of Agriculture, for example, was given such powers under the Stockyards and Packers Act (1938). Much of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s was carried out through administrative regulation. During the same period a comparable development took place in state and municipal government.
regulatory agency, independent governmental commission established by legislative act in order to set standards in a specific field of activity, or operations, in the private sector of the economy and to then enforce those standards. Regulatory agencies function outside executive supervision. Because the regulations that they adopt have the force of law, part of these agencies’ function is essentially legislative; but because they may also conduct hearings and pass judgments concerning adherence to their regulations, they also exercise a judicial function—often carried out before a quasi-judicial official called an administrative law judge, who is not part of the court system.
Who are these "administrative law judge's" and how did they get that job? Can this be influenced?
Regulatory agencies use a commission system of administration, and their terms of office are fixed and often very long. Federal Reserve Board members, for instance, serve for 14 years. Regulatory agency commissions are appointed by the president, but their terms are staggered, so that no one president is able to drastically change the nature of the agency by the appointments he might make.
Like, say when Obama made a former Monsanto guy the head of the USDA and our food supply went down the crapper?
So who are the "Regulatory agency commissioners" and when are their terms up? Is it possible to influence who gets put on the list for consideration? I believe that the Senate can block approval of one, so we should be able to influence that. Is it possible to yank a current one?
I personally believe that just about all of the regulatory agencies are unconstitutional, and a cancer on our society. They need to be attacked, weakened and ideally abolished!
-t