Democrats Likely To Use CRA As Messaging Tool To Fight EPA Rollbacks

November 9, 2018
House Democrats are expected to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) -- the law historically used by Republicans to rescind swaths of the Obama administration's regulatory agenda -- as a political weapon to challenge the Trump administration's deregulatory efforts at EPA and other agencies when they formally assume control of the chamber in 2019. While Democrats next year will still lack the Senate and White House control necessary to enact CRA repeal of pending Trump administration deregulatory rules, the law...


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