Reuters:
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday giving Congress the power to kill dozens of recently enacted rules in one fell swoop, as Republicans charged ahead on their campaign to strip down federal regulations.
It was the second time the Republican-dominated chamber took up legislation blocking “midnight rules,” those rolled out at the close of a president’s term. But the previous bill, introduced in November, had faced a certain veto from President Barack Obama, a Democrat.
On its second day back in session, the House passed the bill on a vote of 238 to 184. The Senate is expected to soon consider companion legislation, which could face a harder time because it would need eight votes from Democrats.
Under a law known as the Congressional Review Act, Congress has the right to review regulations for a certain period of time after they are issued. That means any federal regulation approved since May could be voided by the Republican-led Congress once President-elect Donald Trump moves into the White House and can sign off on their disapproval.
It takes only a simple majority of both chambers to reverse a rule, giving Senate Democrats little power to block a vote with a filibuster.
As disapproving each regulation separately could span days, Republicans would like to simply vote once to end a variety of new rules on energy, the environment, transportation, banking, finance, education and media ownership.
Repeal Obamacare repeal all his executive orders return so called refugees back to where they came from indite obama and his cabinet for crimes against the american people send liberal hollywood celberties to the nations they said they would move to if trump was elected but send cher to jupiter
Choice, freedom, self determination, self reliance pretty frightening for those that cling to the government tit, or think that the government can make better decisions with their money and life than they would themselves.
@Spurwing Plover:
while that sounds like a lovely thing to do, we can’t do that. If so, then any president with a term ending would be subject to arrest and indictment by the incoming group. If I were Obama, and suspected something like that were in the works, I would issue a blanket pardon to myself and all outgoing members and that would take care of that.