To provide for congressional review of rules with respect to which the agency explicitly relied on Chevron deference in the notice of proposed rulemaking or a Federal court upheld the rule based on Chevron deference.
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Latest Action · December 5, 2024
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Accountability, Rules, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
The Congressional Re-Review Act would allow Congress to disapprove federal agency rules that relied on Chevron deference, a legal doctrine the Supreme Court recently overturned. The bill targets rules where agencies explicitly cited Chevron deference in their initial proposal or where courts upheld the rule based on that doctrine. When a disapproval resolution is introduced, federal agencies would have 30 days to provide Congress with cost-benefit analyses and other relevant documents, while the Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, and Comptroller General would each submit their own analyses within the same timeframe. Congress could then vote to reject these rules under an expedited procedure that limits debate to 10 hours and prevents amendments, with disapproved rules treated as though they never took effect. The legislation does not establish new spending or involve direct funding, but it applies specifically to federal agencies and does not affect the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions.
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