The Congress is for breaking the law:

While increasing President Bush’s overall request for the Labor-HHS appropriations bill by 8 percent, the House Democratic version cuts by 19.6 percent the Labor Department request for funds to enforce disclosure by labor unions of how they use membership dues.

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao has tried, against opposition from organized labor, to enforce at long last union disclosures imposed by the 1959 Landrum-Griffin Labor Reform Act. The funding reductions in the House bill would force Chao to cut enforcement personnel and effectively undercut her efforts.

The Democratic bill was put together by Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, who heads the Labor-HHS subcommittee as well as the full Appropriations Committee. It is one of eight money bills marked for a Bush veto. Rep. James Walsh of New York, the subcommittee’s ranking Republican, indicates he will vote to override such a veto.

Congress’s responsibility is to give the executive branch the resources they need to enforce the law.  The fact that the Congress is working to enable the Unions to break the law helps explain why this Congress has the lowest approval ranking ever.

There’s something seriously wrong in Washington.  This is just one example of where they are working to undermine the rule of law.  It reminds me of how Congress is handling the border situation.  They don’t like the law so they work to keep it unenforced.