Congressional Review Act.
United States legislation enabling Congress to override federal agency decisions
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About Congressional Review Act
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) is a law that was enacted by the United States Congress as subtitle E of the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on March 29, 1996. The law empowers Congress to review, by means of an expedited legislative process, new federal regulations issued by government agencies and, by passage of a joint resolution, to overrule a regulation. Once a rule is thus repealed, the CRA also prohibits the reissuing of the rule in substantially the same form or the issuing of a new rule that is substantially the same "unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the joint resolution disapproving the original rule." Congress has a window of time lasting 60 session days to disapprove of any given rule by simple-majority vote; otherwise, the rule will go into effect at the end of that period.
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