EPA Claims Powers To Bypass Due Process

The Environmental Protection Agency has published, in the Federal Register, it's attempt to bypass courts and due process and directly garnish wages of those it fines:

The rule allows the EPA to decide whether a debtor gets a chance to present a defense and then picks whomever it chooses to serve as a hearing officer, even someone not trained as an administrative law judge, wrote David S. Addington, group vice president for research at The Heritage Foundation.
It also puts the burden of proof on the debtor, not the EPA, he said.

 The EPA is relying on the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 for the expanded wage garnishment abilities.  While the EPA is under the current Obama administration, and Clinton was President in 1996, republican Newt Gingrich was the majority leader of the House of Representatives when the Act was passed in 1996.  Both major parties participated in 1996 to implement this Act.