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The bill increases congressional transparency and control over major executive and regulatory actions and improves fiscal visibility, but does so at the cost of slower executive responsiveness, greater administrative burdens, and increased politicization and regulatory uncertainty.
Taxpayers, Congress, and state/local governments gain substantially greater transparency and legislative oversight over major Executive Orders and significant agency rules through required submissions, reporting, and (for major EOs) affirmative congressional approval.
All Americans get faster, clearer congressional review of controversial major Executive Orders through a single, simple up-or-down vote text, making the decision easier for voters and lawmakers to understand.
Budget scorekeepers (OMB, CBO) and Congress receive clearer near-term budgetary impacts because baselines and analyses will reflect forthcoming rules as if they take effect, improving fiscal planning and oversight.
Federal agencies and the President will have reduced ability to implement major policies quickly, risking delayed responses in urgent national-security or emergency situations.
The bill imposes substantial administrative burdens and compliance costs on the Executive Branch, agencies, GAO, and budget scorekeepers to prepare analyses, reports, and inventories, diverting staff time and slowing routine rulemaking and oversight work.
The measures risk politicizing rulemaking and policymaking — shifting authority from expert agencies to Congress, concentrating scheduling power in majority leaders, and giving legislators de facto veto power over technical rules.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Requires pre-effect reporting for Executive Orders, makes ‘‘major’’ Orders subject to expedited congressional approval, changes baseline scoring for rules, and mandates a GAO rules-cost study.
Introduced January 7, 2026 by Michael Dennis Rogers · Last progress January 7, 2026
Requires the President to give Congress detailed supporting information before an Executive Order (EO) can take effect, and separates EOs into “major” and “nonmajor.” Nonmajor EOs take effect after the report is submitted; major EOs may only take effect if Congress enacts a single-form joint resolution approving the EO (with a limited 90-day emergency delay available once). Sets a fast-track congressional process to consider approval of major EOs, changes how agencies’ rules are counted in budget baselines, and directs the Government Accountability Office to study the number and cost of federal rules within one year.