On Tuesday afternoon, the House of Representatives cleared a bill that would allow the Biden administration’s final months to be more efficiently repealed with a vote of 212-208.
Midnight Rules Reliefsponsored by Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, allows the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn multiple regulations issued in the last 60 days of the presidential administration. Under current law, attempts to overturn lawmakers’ institutional rules are limited to one regulation per solution.
“It’s important for efficiency,” speaker Mike Johnson said at a GOP leadership press conference Tuesday morning. “In the months of the Biden administration’s decline, there were 1,400 unnecessary and harmful last-minute rules imposed. These hurt small business owners and hardworking Americans and families.” (Related: Trump administrators need EOS or higher to kill Biden’s mammoth’s “wide government” policy push completely)
“The Midnight Rule Relief Act allows Congress to clear the US decks of the last US rules and regulations imposed by the Biden-Harris administration, and to ensure that our economy wins a $1.34 trillion hit. It’s hindering.” I wrote it In a press release after the January 13th reintroduction of the bill.
Joe Biden and his associates implemented hundreds of new rules and regulations on the decline of his administration.
I introduced the HR 77, The Midnight Rules Relief Act. Therefore, Congress has made it possible to efficiently clear Biden-Harris’s dictatorship deck.
– Andy Biggs representative (@RepandyBiggsaz) February 11, 2025
House Democrats’ opposition to HR 77 is deeply unsafe.
As @RepandyBiggsaz Laid out yesterday, the president of Lame Duck has issued 1,406 new rules in the last few months.
The enormous scale of last-minute executive blueprint creation requires midnight rule remedies. pic.twitter.com/vdtppnow2s
– House Rules Committee (@RulesReps) February 12, 2025
Biggs laws targeting Biden’s regulations I passed Between December 210 and December 2010, Texas’ Henry Culler was one Democrat who supported the bill.
Chuck Schumer, the majority leader at the time, did not take up the bill and forced Biggs to reintroduce the law during the 119th Congress.
The cumulative cost of Biden’s regulations throughout his presidential period will be around $2 trillion, with the Environmental Protection Agency increasing more than half of its total costs. According to Analysis from the right-leaning American action forum. According to the AAF, the Biden administration’s regulatory costs are greater than the previous administration on record.
Republican lawmakers have introduced several CRAs to overturn Biden restrictions since the start of the 119th Congress, which includes Republican North Dakota Sen. John Haven and Republican Texas Sen. Joint CRA resolution Eliminate EPA tax on methane emissions from oil and natural gas producers.
Biggs has served in his fifth home term; running Arizona’s 2026 Governor’s Contest. He previously served as chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
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