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Chris Armstrong
Chief Oversight Counsel, Senate Committee on Finance
Biography
Chris Armstrong is Deputy Chief Oversight Counsel to Chairman Orrin G. Hatch on the Senate Committee on Finance. He previously worked for Chairman Dave Camp on the House Committee on Ways and Means and Senator Charles E. Grassley. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group. The views expressed herein are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those of Chairman Hatch or the Finance Committee.
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Administrative agencies can't just "mak[e] it up as [they] go along."
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Author Response: Interpreting Peruta v. County of San Diego by Joseph Greenlee
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Chris Armstrong
Federalist Society Review, Volume 17, Issue 2
“[A] popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a...