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The bill makes it easier and faster for Congress to overturn multiple late-term agency rules at once, trading faster, more efficient oversight for reduced individual scrutiny and greater potential instability and costs for regulated entities and stakeholders.
Congress (especially a newly seated Congress) can disapprove multiple agency rules in a single CRA resolution, speeding oversight and enabling faster reversal of late-term regulations.
Small businesses and state governments face reduced regulatory uncertainty because bundling lets a new Congress more quickly reverse late-term regulations.
Taxpayers benefit from conserved congressional floor time and legislative resources when multiple disapprovals are combined into one joint resolution.
Taxpayers and legislators lose the ability to debate and amend individual rules because bundling can strip each rule of separate consideration and individual votes.
Small businesses and state governments face increased risk of regulatory whiplash and higher compliance uncertainty when widely different regulations are rejected together en bloc.
Small businesses, state governments, and taxpayers may face abrupt policy changes and higher compliance costs if the change reduces procedural safeguards or shortens consideration timelines, limiting stakeholder input.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows Congress to consolidate multiple final agency rules reported during a President's final year into a single CRA disapproval resolution.
Allows Congress to consolidate multiple final agency rules into a single joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) if each rule was reported by the agency during the final year of a President's term. The change amends existing CRA procedural language to permit en bloc disapproval of those 'midnight' rules, altering how Congress may respond to a cluster of rules issued at the end of an administration.
Official title: To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for en bloc consideration in resolutions of disapproval for "midnight rules", and for other purposes.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress February 13, 2025