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Cliff Bentz: “The idea, of course, with the statute is to somehow narrow…”

Featuring: Cliff Bentz, Republican | U.S. House Oregon, 2nd Congressional District

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Rep. Bentz Joins Natural Resources Full Committee Legislative Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:39

So in the case of, in that particular case critiquing whether how the agency did its environmental review and the scope of it, though, they're the ones who are supposed to be making those policy judges. Yeah. And The idea, of course, with the statute is to somehow narrow an activist judge and restrict that person from making judgments that take the place of the agency. and so forth. It says there's a further part here on restricting what happens when the court remands the matter back to the agency. Your thoughts on that? (03:39–03:53)

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Asserts that the statute aims to limit judicial activism in agency matters.

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