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> Codifying same-sex marriage.

Replacing definitions. Important but not "massive."

> Hundreds of billions on re-framing our transport system.

They spend hundreds of billions most years. It's part of the FY budget, is it not? They included a few billion dollars for additional grant projects.

> (Like every major airport in the country is being renovated and expanded.)

Like ATP. Are you referencing ATP? It's a grant program.

> What is your standard for meaningful legislation?

Look at all the places where the lack of a Chevron doctrine is being decried as a tragedy. Perhaps, start there?

> It’s trivial to quantify; the minutes are public.

That they meet I'm sure is a recorded fact. You said they were "buzzing." Compared to previous years? With more than just reauthorizations?

> With the CRA, the Congress never actually ceded any power. Just initiative.

Once the initiative is taken through a court and precedent some measure of power is lost until congress finds the initiative again. Which is not always a guarantee given it's political structure and lengthy vacations.

> there is no legislative push to reinstate Chevron by statute.

Per the article: "Last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) introduced a bill in the upper house seeking to codify the Chevron Doctrine under a law duly voted by Congress."




> spend hundreds of billions most years. It's part of the FY budget, is it not?

No. This was new spending.

> Look at all the places where the lack of a Chevron doctrine is being decried as a tragedy

You’re comparing talk to appropriations.

> You said they were "buzzing." Compared to previous years?

On par with the last decade.

> Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) introduced a bill in the upper house seeking to codify the Chevron Doctrine

One, this is talk, not legislation. Two, is your claim that there has been no productive Congress since Chevron?




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