Congress and Administration

Limitation riders in the news today:  "If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation." -- Don Draper

Very useful resources from Brookings:

• Turnover Tracker
• Deregulation Tracker
• House Oversight Tracker (more in the week after sim)

More on Nominations and Removals

• PAS and non-PAS
• The Decision of 1789 -- president does not need approval for firings
• Could Trump have ordered the firing of Mueller? (Yep) Precedent: The Saturday Night Massacre
• A key exception: Independent regulatory commissions: Humphrey's Executor v. US
• Remember: INDEPENDENT AGENCIES AND INDEPENDENT REGULATORY COMMISSIONS ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. 

Congress "organizes" the executive:

• "Drug Czar"
• The "organization" of DHS.
• DNI and the intelligence community

Regulation

• Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations
• Net Neutrality, for example
• The process (shorter form in Davidson 334):

One measure:  pages in the Federal Register

Congressional Review Act (Thurber, pp. 106-16)

• Bypasses lengthy APA, disapproval resolutions not subject to filibuster
• Relatively ineffective ... until 2017
• Turnabout: Dems wanted to use it to overturn the net neutrality rule