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United States legislation enabling Congress to override federal agency decisions
Coverage of Senator John Kennedy’s barbed attacks on colleagues has been a mix of Republican-aligned amplification of his political messaging and mainstream criticism that frames him as a disruptive, ...
Calculating "days in session" for a given year requires first choosing whether to count calendar days (actual dates the chamber met) or legislative/“legislative day” counts (parliamentary days that ca...
voted to overturn a 20-year mineral withdrawal that had blocked new sulfide-ore mining in the headwaters near , passing a Congressional Review Act resolution (H.J. Res. 140) on a 214–208 vote and send...
President Trump’s second-term deregulatory agenda centers on an executive order requiring agencies to repeal 10 existing rules for every new rule and broad steps to speed rollbacks and limit analyses ...
Courts treated many regulatory rollbacks far less favorably than prior administrations saw for agency actions: detailed trackers show the first Trump administration prevailed in only about 22–23 perce...
President Trump’s second term launched with a sweeping deregulatory agenda that combined a formal regulatory freeze, a “10-for-1” regulatory budget requiring agencies to eliminate ten rules for each n...
Several recent proposals and longstanding statutes aim to constrain or clarify congressional power and improve congressional ethics: the Protecting Our Democracy Act would strengthen Congress’s subpoe...
Congress has several legislative levers it can use to prompt review or to overturn executive actions: appropriations riders that withhold funds or bar agency actions; the Congressional Review Act (CRA...
Congress has several oversight tools to block or review executive-branch reclassifications: committee investigations and hearings, mandatory agency briefings, appropriations riders or statutory restri...