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The bill speeds congressional reversal of multiple late-term regulations and saves floor time, but does so at the cost of reduced individual scrutiny, stakeholder input, and a higher risk of abrupt regulatory disruption for businesses and states.
Congress (legislators and committees) can disapprove multiple agency rules at once under the CRA, making oversight and post-election rule reversal faster and more administratively efficient.
Small businesses and state governments may face less regulatory uncertainty because a new Congress can more quickly reverse late-term regulations by bundling disapprovals.
Taxpayers benefit from conserved congressional floor time and legislative resources when multiple disapprovals are consolidated into a single joint resolution.
Agencies, businesses, and state governments risk regulatory whiplash if very different regulations are rejected together en bloc, creating abrupt compliance changes and operational disruption.
Taxpayers and voters lose the ability to see and debate each rule individually because bundling can strip separate debate and amendment, reducing scrutiny and lawmakers' capacity to vote on specific regulations.
If the change shortens consideration timelines or lowers procedural safeguards, stakeholders (businesses, states, and the public) could have less opportunity for input and face sudden policy shifts that raise compliance costs.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows Congress to bundle multiple final agency rules reported in a President's final year into a single CRA disapproval resolution.
Allows Congress to combine multiple final agency rules that were reported during a President's final year into a single joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). Also sets a short title for the law. The change makes it easier for Congress to act “en bloc” to overturn multiple so‑called "midnight" rules submitted late in a President’s term, by permitting consolidation of those rules into one disapproval resolution rather than requiring a separate resolution for each rule.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress February 13, 2025