Rick Santorum was asked if he could talk more about abolishing federal departments and returning those powers to the states. His answer was a bit different than other presidential candidates, suggesting that just abolishing a federal department with an executive order isn’t the answer because there are laws that must be enforced and will end up being the responsibility of someone to enforce:
The question is what do the laws say, what should they be saying, whether we need them or whether we don’t need them, and then what kind of administrators and people we have in these departments. … So what do we have to do? Abolishing a department doesn’t help anything. Changing the laws does. Eliminating laws do. … We have to go through all of these laws and look at the enormous flexibility that these laws give regulators to basically make new laws.
Here’s the full explanation:
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