The bill makes Congressional disapproval of multiple late-term agency rules procedurally easier and clearer—speeding oversight and reducing drafting ambiguity—but at the cost of reduced per-rule scrutiny, diminished public debate, and greater regulatory uncertainty for businesses and governments.
Congress and taxpayers: allows Congress to disapprove multiple agency rules in a single CRA resolution (when those rules' reports were filed in a President's final year), reducing the number of separate votes and speeding executive-branch regulatory review.
Congress and federal employees: simplifies procedural text in §802(a), which may reduce drafting errors or ambiguities in joint resolutions of disapproval and improve clarity of oversight actions.
Businesses, state and local governments, and taxpayers: increases regulatory uncertainty if multiple disparate rules are bundled and acted on near transitions, complicating planning and compliance.
Congress, state and local governments: forcing acceptance or rejection of multiple, potentially unrelated rules in one resolution reduces granular legislative oversight of individual regulations.
Taxpayers and affected stakeholders: bundling rules into a single resolution can limit public debate on individual regulations and obscure specific policy impacts for those affected.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows one CRA joint resolution to disapprove multiple rules if each rule’s required CRA report was submitted during the President’s final year; makes minor textual edits to the resolving-clause language.
Allows Congress to use a single Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution to disapprove multiple agency rules when each rule’s required CRA report was submitted during a President’s final year in office, and makes minor, non-substantive wording changes to the resolving-clause text of the CRA. One section sets the act’s short title and contains no operative policy or funding.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress February 13, 2025