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The bill makes it easier and cleaner for Congress to rescind multiple late-term agency rules at once, improving legislative efficiency but increasing regulatory uncertainty and the risk of wholesale removal of protections without case-by-case review.
Congress can disapprove multiple late-term agency rules at once, enabling faster legislative review and potential rollback of several regulations in a single vote.
Establishes clear, standardized resolving-clause language for CRA disapproval votes, reducing drafting errors and procedural challenges that can delay or invalidate congressional actions.
Federal agencies (and the people and businesses they regulate) face greater risk that multiple rules finalized in a President’s final year will be nullified en bloc, producing regulatory uncertainty and complicating agency planning and compliance.
Repealing multiple rules at once can remove protections or requirements that affect the public or regulated parties without individualized consideration, potentially harming taxpayers and vulnerable groups who relied on those rules.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Permits one CRA joint resolution to disapprove multiple agency rules submitted during a President's final year and supplies model resolving-clause language.
Official title: 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 21, 2025 by Ron Johnson · Last progress January 21, 2025
Allows Congress to use a single joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to disapprove multiple agency rules at once if each rule’s required agency report was submitted during the final year of a President’s term. It also provides model legal text for the resolving clause of such multi-rule disapproval resolutions so they can list several rules and state they "shall have no force or effect."