Posted on 11/16/2016 1:31:22 PM PST by bobk3
Dozens of major regulations passed recently by the Obama administration — including far-reaching changes on health care, consumer protections and environmental safety — could be undone with the stroke of a pen by Donald J. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress starting in January, thanks to a little-used law that dates back to 1996.
And it comes with a scorched-earth kicker: If the law is used to strike down a rule, the federal agency that issued it is barred from enacting similar regulation again in the future.
The obscure law — called the Congressional Review Act — was passed 20 years ago at the behest of Newt Gingrich, then the House speaker and now a member of Mr. Trump’s transition team. It gives Congress 60 legislative days to review and override major regulations enacted by federal agencies. In the Senate, the vote would not be subject to filibuster.
The president can veto the rejection, which usually renders the law toothless. But when one party controls both the White House and Congress, it can be a powerful legislative weapon.
So far it has only been successfully used once: In 2001, a Republican Congress invoked it to eliminate workplace safety regulations adopted in the final months of President Clinton’s tenure. President George W. Bush signed the repeal two months after his inauguration, wiping out stricter ergonomics rules that had been 10 years in the making.
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With Trump’s Signature, Dozens of Obama’s Rules WILL Fall
There. Fixed it.
As Martha Stewart used to say “That’s a Good thing!”
Stroke of a pen, all 8 years of Barky GONE!!! Greatest Election EVER!!!
If you live by the executive order, you die by the executive order.
Live by the pen, die by the pen.
He’s got a pen and a phone.
GMTA.
“With Trump’s Signature, Dozens of Obama’s Rules Could Fall”
My cheeks hurt from smiling.
I was kind of hoping for thousands, not dozens.
We are hopeful!
And Obama, the all around community organizer and constitutional scholar, becomes a footnote in history.
This was always the problem liberals could not see when the support Obama and his Imperial presidency. The precedent is there for rule by Executive Order. No doubt President Trump will pursue it.
Wait a minute -- an administration doesn't "pass" anything.
Unless pass has somehow become another word for decree.
They damned well better.
Or Trump and the GOPe is dead.
YES!!! (Biggest smile ever)
Shadenfreudelicious
More Fake News from the NYT. Agencies do NOT "enact" anything.
I hope they come out with a pill that will erase him from my memory Go science
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