Congress is lazy. Congress is lazy. My predecessors abdicated the responsibilities to the executive branch so they could keep getting elected and come up here and have these very super important … Chevron happened. … to do their job, which is write very prescriptive legislation and tell the executive branch what they're going to do because we are the Article one authority. We are. (02:19–02:21)
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Refers to the Chevron deference, implying it resulted from Congress's abdication of responsibilities.
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