Murkowski’s Leadership on Display as She Calls Out Biden Admin for Overstepping Its Authority

April 1, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, PTF’s Founder Daniel Turner spoke at the Meet Alaska conference on how the Biden Administration was continuing to overstep its power by issuing executive and administrative orders to bypass Congress and its rule-making authority.

Turner noted that an often-overlooked area of influence was at an agency level, with FERC, SEC and the Fed all joining the chorus with anti-traditional energy announcements and ‘go-green’ mandates recently.

Alaska’s senior U.S. Senator, Lisa Murkowski, and nine of her colleagues must have been listening.

On March 22^nd, they sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office’s Comptroller General, specifically calling out recent FERC Policy Statements as exceeding agency authority.  The Statements seek to impact applications under the Natural Gas Act (NGA).

The Senators claim that the Statements are instead operating as rules, which are Congress’ authority only, and ask the GAO whether it agrees.

Power The Future commends Senators Murkowski, Barrasso and the other co-signers of the letter for clearly stating their position.  The Biden Administration’s overt willingness to side-step rules and positional authorities had yet to be fully challenged.  With the letter last week, the Senators are clearly saying, ‘enough is enough.’  Congress – not agencies – get to make the rules.  Here’s hoping the GAO agrees.