Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared Tuesday that Republicans are plotting to use the Congressional Review Act to kill Biden administration rules.
The Kentucky Republican, who’s stepping down from his leadership post at the end of the year, said the incoming Senate majority was preparing to use the CRA “to rein in Washington bureaucrats’ expensive interpretation of the powers over working Americans.”
“Under the Biden administration, Democrats have worked relentlessly to resurrect the Obama administration’s regulatory regime,” he said, “from student loan socialism to job-killing energy policies to blatant infringements on property rights.”
The CRA allows Congress to undo rules issued within a certain amount of time. Only simple majority votes are required in the House and Senate, and the president’s signature. A number of recently issued rules or upcoming Biden administration actions are vulnerable.
