Monday, April 05, 2021

Update on Congressional Review Act

 I've posted before on the use of the Congressional Review Act to kill regulations. The last time I posted it seemed as if the administration was hesitant to use it, partly because of uncertainty over its effects down the road. CRA has a provision if Congress votes to kill a reg, the agency cannot do new regulations substantially the same without new legislation.

It now appears that maybe Democrats will try to apply it to six regulations. Because the Trump administration used their control of Congress to kill several regulations from the Obama administration, I also looking to see if any agencies try to revive them and test how much flexibility SCOTUS will allow in interpreting the act.

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