House Passes Bill To Help Undo Biden’s Regulatory Assault On Americans’ Pocketbooks

The House of Representatives cleared a bill Wednesday afternoon that would allow Congress to more efficiently repeal regulations issued during the last months of the Biden administration in a vote of to 212 to 208.

The Midnight Rules Relief Act, sponsored by Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, would amend the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to allow Congress to overturn multiple regulations issued during the last 60 days of a presidential administration. Under current law, lawmakers’ attempts to overturn agency rules are limited to one regulation per resolution.

Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar was the lone Democratic lawmaker to back the bill.

“That’s important for efficiency purposes,” Speaker Mike Johnson said during the House GOP’s leadership press conference Tuesday morning. “In the waning months of the Biden administration, there were 1400 unnecessary, harmful, last minute rules that were imposed. Those are things that hurt small business owners and hardworking Americans and families.”

“The Midnight Rules Relief Act will allow Congress to clear the deck of America Last rules and regulations imposed by the Biden-Harris regime and will prevent our economy from taking a $1.34 trillion hit,” Biggs wrote in a press release following reintroduction of the bill on Jan. 13.

Biggs’ legislation targeting Biden regulations passed the House last December 210-201 with just one Democratic lawmaker, Henry Cuellar of Texas, supporting the bill.