HR 77referred119th Congress

Midnight Rules Relief Act

Introduced Jan 3, 2025House billPolicy area: Government Operations and PoliticsLast action Feb 13, 2025Sponsor: Andy Biggs(R-AZ)

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Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs CommitteeJudiciary CommitteeRules Committee

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Official summaryUpdated Feb 13, 2025

What the bill does

Midnight Rules Relief Act This bill allows Congress to disapprove multiple regulations under one joint resolution of disapproval if the regulations were submitted for review during a portion of the final year of a President's term. Under current law, the Congressional Review Act generally provides for a period of additional review during the succeeding Congress for regulations that were submitted during the last 60 legislative days of the prior Congress. However, each joint resolution may disapprove of only one regulation.

Latest official action

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

Lobbying Filings Citing It

$43.1M

Reported on Those Filings, All Issues

Lobbying Clients

100

Recorded Votes

Timeline

Jan 3, 2025bill

Bill introduced

Feb 12, 2025vote

Sara Jacobs voted nay

Feb 12, 2025vote

John J. McGuire III voted yea

Feb 12, 2025vote

Addison P. McDowell voted yea

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

Apr 21, 2025lobbying

Lobbying filed by AFL-CIO

Official Congressional Actions

Feb 13, 2025IntroReferral

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

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

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Feb 12, 2025Floor

On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 205 - 213 (Roll no. 40).

Judiciary Committee

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Feb 12, 2025Floor

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 122. (consideration: CR H654-663)

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Feb 12, 2025Floor

The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.

Lobbying Activity

Registrant	Client	Amount	Filed	Period	Issues
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.	CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.	$19.3M	Jul 21, 2025	2025Q2	AERAUTAVI
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.	CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.	$19.3M	Apr 21, 2025	2025Q1	ENVFINFOR
AFL-CIO

Votes on This Bill

Member	Party	Position	Date
Sara Jacobs	D	nay	Feb 12, 2025
John J. McGuire III	R	yea	Feb 12, 2025
Addison P. McDowell	R	yea	Feb 12, 2025
Dave Min	D	nay	Feb 12, 2025

About this page

The lobbying table lists Senate LDA quarterly reports (LD-2) that cite this bill by number and cover a quarter of the 119th Congress. An LD-2 names a bill as “H.R. 1234” with no Congress, so a report on another Congress, which can only concern a different bill with the same number, is left out, even when it was filed after this Congress began. The amount is what the registrant reported for the whole filing, across every issue on it, not spending on this bill. Official actions and the bill summary come from Congress.gov, and votes from the roll-call record. This page no longer pairs the bill with members' stock trades: matching lobbying clients to traded companies by name, and trades to a bill by date, is not something the records establish.