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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
Process Gas Consumers Group v. Consumer Energy Council of America
Citation:
463 U.S. 1216 (1983)Facts
The Process Gas Consumers Group challenged the constitutionality of a one-house legislative veto provision in the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, which allowed either house of Congress to disapprove rules promulgated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The provision permitted Congress to exercise control over administrative rulemaking without going through the full legislative process required by the Constitution. The case reached the Supreme Court shortly after its landmark decision in INS v. Chadha, which had declared a similar one-house legislative veto provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the bicameralism and presentment requirements of Article I.
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