Congressional stalemate shifted environmental lawmaking power to appropriations riders.
Evidence
Unable to enact substantive legislation either to reform the environmental laws or to stop EPA and Interior’s new regulatory initiatives, congressional opponents sought other legislative avenues to have their voices heard. The result was a relative rise in the power of the congressional appropriations committees and their use of so-called appropriation riders, which denied an executive branch agency the authority to spend any sums to implement specific programs or policies. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 703
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the ‘appropriation rider’ — a key mechanism of institutional power the reader will need to trace across LGST 1110.
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Three institutional changes caused the 1990s environmental-lawmaking collapse. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 667; The 1995 Timber Salvage Rider suspended environmental laws to force timber harvesting. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 705; Appropriations committees gained power only as authorization committees faltered. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 704 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Executive authority was used because Congress blocked climate legislation
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