Sponsor
Nicholas A. Langworthy
Representative · R-NY
Representative · R-NY
The resolution speeds up House action to overturn two agency rules and brings scheduling certainty to the floor, but it does so by curtailing procedural protections and debate in ways that raise risks to environmental protections, public health, and stakeholder input.
House members and federal employees: enables immediate debate and expedited votes on the EPA and BOEM disapproval resolutions so Congress can act quickly on those agency rules.
House of Representatives and taxpayers: sets a fixed, short debate period and orders the previous question, providing scheduling certainty and faster resolution of House business.
House of Representatives: preserves a single motion to recommit, maintaining a final opportunity to propose amendments or delay before final passage.
States, industry, public health groups, and taxpayers: waiving points of order and imposing very short debate reduces opportunities for scrutiny, stakeholder input, expert testimony, and amendment before final votes.
Workers at tire manufacturing plants and nearby communities: rescinding the EPA hazardous air pollutant standard could weaken pollution controls and increase local health risks.
Coastal communities and cultural-resource stakeholders: fast-tracking disapproval of the BOEM rule increases the likelihood that protections for marine archaeological resources will be reduced.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Orders expedited House consideration of two joint resolutions to disapprove an EPA tire-manufacturing emissions rule and a BOEM marine-archaeology rule, with debate limits and waived points of order.
Allows the House to take up two separate joint resolutions that would overturn recent agency rules and sets fast-track procedures for each vote. For each resolution, it waives procedural objections, treats the measure as read, limits debate to one hour split equally between majority and minority managers from the relevant committee, and permits a single motion to recommit (or commit). One resolution targets an EPA emissions rule for rubber tire manufacturing; the other seeks to disapprove a BOEM rule protecting marine archaeological resources. The resolution does not change the agency rules itself — it only sets how the House will consider and vote on the disapproval measures immediately upon adoption.
Official title: Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 42) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment"; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 61) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing"; and providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 11) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources".
Introduced March 3, 2025 by Nicholas A. Langworthy · Last progress March 4, 2025