CSS Releases Congressional Review Act Resolutions Tracker

For Immediate Release: Feb. 5, 2025
Contact: David Rosen, drosen@citizen.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards today released its tracker of Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions in the 119th Congress. As of today, at least nine rules have been targeted for repeal. They include:

• Efficiency standards that save consumers money and limit carbon emissions;
• Requirements that polluters must pay for their methane pollution;
• Measures to prevent big Wall Street banks from getting even bigger;
• Protections against trichloroethyleneone, one of the most dangerous cancer-causing toxic chemicals;
• Limits on hydrofluorocarbons, one of the most potent greenhouse gases;
• Extensions of employment authorizations for lawful, law-abiding immigrants faced with processing backlogs;
• Protections for marine archaeological resources;
• Program updates that increase the availability of Wi-Fi hotspots to students, school staff, and public library patrons for off-premises use to help close the digital divide or “Homework Gap”; and more.

“The CRA makes it easy for lawmakers to enrich their industry donors at the public’s expense,” said Rachel Weintraub, executive director of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards. “It’s telling that the GOP’s first priority is boosting corporate profits and not lowering costs for the millions of Americans who are struggling. Regulation protects all of us from threats that none of us can stop by acting alone, and striking down rules puts our health, safety, pocketbooks, and environment at risk.”

Under the CRA, resolutions targeting Biden era rules may not be introduced until the 15th legislative day of the new Congress, which was January 23. Lookback resolutions introduced before then are not valid and cannot become law, and are thus excluded from the tracker.

The CRA allows Congress by simple majority vote in both chambers with limited debate, no possibility of a filibuster, and the president’s signature to overturn recently issued regulations. The agency that issued the rule is then prohibited from issuing a new one that is “substantially the same,” but the scope of this prohibition has never been tested in court. The CRA includes a carryover period allowing a new Congress to strike down rules issued in the final months of the previous administration.

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