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The bill standardizes and speeds CRA procedural handling for Congress at the cost of narrowing what counts as a joint resolution—potentially limiting Congressional oversight and creating transitional legal uncertainty that could leave some agency rules in place.
Members of Congress and legislative clerks gain clearer, narrower rules about which joint resolutions qualify under the CRA, reducing ambiguity in disapproval votes and making procedural choices more predictable.
House and Senate clerks and federal staff can process CRA disapproval submissions more quickly because a codified, uniform resolving-clause text makes submissions consistent and simplifies clerical handling.
Members of Congress and taxpayers may lose a degree of oversight power because narrowing the statutory definition of 'joint resolution' can make some disapproval measures procedurally invalid, reducing Congress's flexibility to challenge agency rules.
State and local governments, taxpayers, and regulated parties could face legal uncertainty and transitional confusion as technical removals and renumbering create questions about the status of past or pending CRA disapproval actions until courts resolve disputes.
Taxpayers and small businesses could be affected if the new definition excludes certain disapproval resolutions and lets agency rules Congress intended to overturn remain in force, potentially imposing costs or risks tied to those rules.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Limits the CRA to disapproval resolutions introduced only after an agency report and requires exact statutory wording declaring the rule "shall have no force or effect," while removing two subsections.
Introduced June 24, 2025 by Derek Schmidt · Last progress June 24, 2025
Amends the Congressional Review Act by removing two subsections and narrowing the legal definition of a "joint resolution" used to disapprove agency rules. After this change, a disapproval resolution must be introduced only after the relevant agency report has been received by Congress and must use a specific, prescribed sentence that declares the listed rule "shall have no force or effect." These changes reorganize subsection lettering and eliminate two statutory provisions.