With unified Republican government on the horizon, congressional Republicans may be tempted to place on the backburner their branch’s function as a check on presidential power. They should resist this temptation. Instead, congressional Republicans should take up the mantle of reversing the decades-long shift of authority from Capitol Hill to the White House.

Over many decades, the executive branch has accumulated powers traditionally held by Congress.  Today, executive agencies annually publish approximately 175,000 pages of regulations, many of which are legally binding; President Obama commands U.S. military operations in Syria and elsewhere based on a 9/11-era congressional authorization; and the use of executive orders to set immigration policy has further upended conventional notions of Congress as the nation’s lawmaker.

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