Among the final bills introduced in the current lame-duck Congress, and the first resolutions to be filed in the new Congress that convenes on Jan. 3, will be resolutions seeking to suspend implementation of the Biden administration’s “midnight regulations.”
Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on several occasions this week said the incoming Senate majority is preparing Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions to “rein in Washington bureaucrats” while agency rules are reviewed by the new GOP trifecta Congress.
The Biden administration’s regulations for 2024 “alone amount to the second-highest annual total by pages in the Federal Register,” he said in a Nov. 20 statement, noting since assuming office, the administration has “imposed regulatory costs that, by one estimate, surpass $1.8 trillion. That’s trillion with a ‘T.’”…