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Andy Biggs (R-AZ)

Midnight Rules Relief Act

H.R. 77 · House bill Government Operations and Politics

A Republican bill with 12 Republican cosponsors · See all 12 cosponsors

Last activity — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

In the other chamber's committee

Passed one chamber and has been handed to a committee in the other.

The committee decides whether it goes any further, and most bills that reach a committee never leave it. A committee that simply does nothing kills a bill without anyone ever voting against it, so no news from here is usually the news.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. Passed House 212–208
  3. In Senate committee

What this bill would do

This bill is called the Midnight Rules Relief Act. It changes how Congress can look at and disapprove of certain federal rules. Specifically, it allows Congress to consider multiple rules together in a joint resolution of disapproval. This applies to rules submitted during the final year of a President's term. The text provides a specific format for the resolving clause to list these rules. Ultimately, rules disapproved this way will have no force or effect.

Yes

  • Scored +3

    Does this make what the government does easier for the public to see?

    The bill streamlines the congressional oversight process for administrative rules.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.

What Congress actually voted on

2 recorded votes have been taken on this bill. One of them decided something; the rest moved it along.

  • The House: the vote on whether to pass the bill This is the real decision in this chamber. Passing here sends the bill to the other chamber, which must pass it too before it can go to the President. Passed 212 yes · 208 no

    See who voted how →

    02/12/2025 · Roll call 41 · recorded as “On Passage”