Bipartisan Policy Center Event on “Legislating After Loper”
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| March 14, 2025
The event will discuss how the Loper and other court decisions “pose challenges for Congress in how it legislates and directs regulatory agencies. They also underscore existing concerns over congressional capacity, internal processes, and the legislative branch’s ability to tackle complex policy challenges. Last year, BPC established the Working Group on Congress, Courts, and Administrative Law to identify concrete, bipartisan steps that Congress can take to address the questions raised by the Court. A report detailing the Working Group’s findings will be released alongside the event and available on BPC’s website.”
Speakers, moderators, and panelists include:
- Rep. Joe Morelle (NY-25) | Ranking Member, Committee on House Administration
- Heidi Heitkamp | Co-Chair, Working Group on Congress, Courts, and Administrative Law; Co-Chair, Farm and Forest Carbon Solutions Task Force; Former U.S. Senator (D-ND)
- Mel Martinez | Co-Chair, Working Group on Congress, Courts, and Administrative Law; Former U.S. Senator (R-FL); Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Margaret Spellings | President and CEO, Bipartisan Policy Center (Moderator)
- Marci Harris | Co-founder and Executive Director, POPVOX Foundation
- Victoria Nourse | Ralph V. Whitworth Professor in Law, Georgetown Law and Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- Jeffrey A. Rosen | Nonresident Fellow, AEI and Former Acting U.S. Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General
Event Details and Registration
March 27, 2025 from 9:30 am to 10:30 am EDT
Hybrid Event
Bipartisan Policy Center
1225 Eye Street NW
Washington, D.C
Bipartisan Policy Center Working Group on Congress, Courts, and Administrative Law
On December 10, 2024, the Bipartisan Policy Center launched “launched a new Working Group on Congress, Courts, and Administrative Law, led by former Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Mel Martinez (R-FL), to develop practical tools to help Congress reinvigorate its legislative capabilities following recent Supreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Chevron deference in Loper Bright.”
Working Group Co-Chairs:
- Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) | Institute Director, The University of Chicago Institute of Politics
- Former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) | Member, Board of Directors, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Working Group Members:*
- Corey Astill | Vice President, Health and Retirement, Smart Regulation, Business Roundtable
- Kurt Couchman | Senior Fellow, Fiscal Policy, Americans for Prosperity
- Jen Daulby | CEO, Congressional Management Foundation
- Susan Dudley | The George Washington University
- Former Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) | Senior Advisor, Leavitt Group; Former U.S. Representative
- Howard Shelanski | Joseph and Madeline Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation; Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
- Jared Thompson | Managing Litigator, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Rob Walters | Retired Partner, Gibson Dunn
