Sen. Ben Sasse spent much of his freshman year without taking the podium. In a studied decision to use his previous reticence as leverage, the Nebraska Republican devoted his first speech on the Senate floor Tuesday to sounding the alarm on the rapid expansion of an “administrative state” comprised of unelected federal bureaucrats.
“The growth of the administrative state, the fourth branch of government, is increasingly hollowing out the Senate and the entire Article I branch, the legislature,” Sasse said. “Oddly, many in the Congress have been complicit in this hollowing out of our own powers.”
This unofficial fourth branch of government, he explained, emerged over the past century as legislators from both parties gradually relegated lawmaking authorities to the executive branch of the president to avoid taking on tough issues.
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