This explains a lot. The gentleman from Oklahoma doesn’t know enough about American civics to understand which of the 3 branches of government he servers in. There is plenty of legislative work for him to do without diddling in things properly decided by the judicial branch.

I think it would be good for Congress to be forced to explicitly state, for a particular bill, where in the Constitution they get the authority to enact that bill in the first place. It probably wouldn’t be particularly effective, of course (I predict gratuitous mention of the interstate commerce clause and such), but at least congressmen would have to think about the Constitution instead of passing whatever set of socialist wet dreams they have in mind and then letting the judiciary pick up the pieces.

Congress can only legally act by exercising powers explicitly granted to it by the Constitution. This legislation simply requires each of these specific authorities to be stated in the text of the legislation. This is only common sense and should be passed.

Common Sense Bill. Hard to believe it would even be considered in WA D.C. Thank you Mr. Coburn.
P.S. to LucasFoxx- There isn’t any common sense in the Judiciary Branch, either, so this will at least point THEM in the right direction.