John McClaughry: Putting the brakes on ‘sue and settle’

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. 
Back in 1999 Robert Reich, President Bill Clinton’s very liberal ex-secretary of labor, penned an op-ed piece that said, “The era of big government may be over, but the era of regulation through litigation has just begun.”
Reich argued that Congress, since 1994 under the control of pro-business Republicans, will not enact liberal proposals for regulating and taxing