{"id":2711,"date":"2024-11-20T19:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-plot-rule-busting-plans-for-next-year\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T19:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:51:45","slug":"republicans-plot-rule-busting-plans-for-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republicans-plot-rule-busting-plans-for-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans plot rule-busting plans for next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared Tuesday that Republicans are plotting to use the Congressional Review Act to kill Biden administration rules.<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky Republican, who&#8217;s stepping down from his leadership post at the end of the year, said the incoming Senate majority was preparing to use the CRA &#8220;to rein in Washington bureaucrats&#8217; expensive interpretation of the powers over working Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the Biden administration, Democrats have worked relentlessly to resurrect the Obama administration&#8217;s regulatory regime,&#8221; he said, &#8220;from student loan socialism to job-killing energy policies to blatant infringements on property rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The CRA allows Congress to undo rules issued within a certain amount of time. Only simple majority votes are required in the House and Senate, and the president&#8217;s signature. A number of recently issued rules or upcoming Biden administration actions are vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, who&#8217;s helping lead a government efficiency task force for President-elect Donald Trump, offered a &#8220;friendly reminder&#8221; to Congress on the CRA on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Congressional Review Act allows the House &amp; Senate to &#8216;fast track&#8217; a joint resolution rejecting federal regulations within 60 session-days of a regulation being finalized,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;This process has been successfully used &gt;20 times, including 16 times at the start of Pres. Trump&#8217;s first term to rescind Obama-era regulations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, with a new governing &#8220;trifecta,&#8221; Republicans undid more than a dozen Obama regulations, including a coal mining pollution rule.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, Ramaswamy added: &#8220;We can\u2019t just complain anymore. Now that we\u2019re back in power, it\u2019s time to act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared Tuesday that Republicans are plotting to use the Congressional Review Act to kill Biden administration rules. The Kentucky Republican, who&#8217;s stepping down from his leadership post at the end of the year, said the incoming Senate majority was preparing to use the CRA &#8220;to rein in Washington bureaucrats&#8217; expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}