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To: AFPhys

“Congressional Review Act actions are not able to be vetoed by the president, and there is a limited time in which they can be enacted by Congress (6 months?)”

You’re incorrect. They’re still resolutions that must be signed or rejected by the president. They cannot be filibustered in the Senate, which is what I think you’re thinking of.

From Wikipedia:

The law provides a procedure for expedited consideration in the Senate. If the committee to which a joint resolution is referred has not reported it within 20 calendar days after the rule is received by Congress and published in the Federal Register, the committee may be discharged from further consideration by a written petition of 30 Senators, when the measure is placed on the calendar, and it is in order at any time for a Senator to move to proceed to the joint resolution.[9] If the Senate agrees to the non-debatable motion to proceed, debate on the floor is limited to up to 10 hours and no amendments to the resolution or motions to proceed to other business are in order. The Senate may then pass the joint resolution with a simple majority.[9] A joint resolution of disapproval meeting certain criteria cannot be filibustered.[10] For a regulation to be invalidated under the CRA, the Congressional resolution of disapproval must be either signed by the President or passed over the President’s veto by two thirds of both Houses of Congress.


17 posted on 06/07/2023 6:40:48 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Thank you for correcting me. I had a misconception that a simple majority of both houses was enough. A core “official” article:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43992

I hope that soon we can get a sufficient majority of freedom-oriented persons in the government to get the ability to overcome the President’s massive executive branch power through these out-of-control agencies through a simple majority of Congress.


18 posted on 06/07/2023 9:01:44 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - ® - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
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