Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2025
Official title: To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that major rules of the executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law.
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2025
This bill revises provisions relating to congressional review of agency rulemaking.
Specifically, the bill establishes a congressional approval process for a major rule. A major rule may only take effect if Congress approves of the rule. A major rule is a rule that has resulted in or is likely to result in (1) an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; (2) a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, government agencies, or geographic regions; or (3) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises.
The bill generally preserves the current congressional review process for a nonmajor rule.
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- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS
- PIONEER PUBLIC AFFAIRS
- DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE
- MEGUIRE WHITNEY
- AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- Interior, Dept of (DOI)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 142: Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-142/
"H.R. 142: Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-142/.
H.R. 142, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-142/.
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