Senate votes to repeal travel mask mandates in bipartisan rebuke of Biden administration policy

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12. Ron Paul's SPAWN

invoked a procedural tool to force it for consideration - the Congressional Review Act (made part of the Newt Gingrich hit job "Contract with America" ) - which allows for a vote to repeal regulations enacted by E.O.s by a simple majority and without need for cloture. Of course as also noted in this thread, even if it did pass the House, Biden can veto it and they don't have enough to override.

Excerpt from the OP link -

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Paul forced a vote on his resolution using the Congressional Review Act. The act allows senators to overturn federal agencies' regulations within a certain time frame and can do it by a majority threshold without having to clear the typical 60 votes to overcome a legislative filibuster.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-votes-to-repeal-travel-mask-mandates-in-bipartisan-rebuke-of-biden-administration-policy/ar-AAV6utq

The below explains what this is -

Report
How powerful is the Congressional Review Act?
Philip A. Wallach and Nicholas W. Zeppos Tuesday, April 4, 2017

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Background: What is the CRA?

Passed as part of the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996, the Congressional Review Act creates a streamlined procedure by which Congress can disapprove and thereby nullify regulations promulgated by various federal government agencies. The CRA requires that all rules be reported to Congress. Upon receiving that report, Congress then has 60 legislative working days (which is generally a much longer period than 60 calendar days) to introduce a special joint resolution of disapproval of the rule (see 5. U.S.C. § 802(a)).

That resolution can be discharged from committee and can avoid the Senate’s filibuster, thereby empowering Congress to contend with the administrative state’s vast rulemaking powers on something closer to an equal footing.

That, at least, was the theory behind the CRA, which was meant to replicate the power of the legislative veto that Congress had often depended on until the Supreme Court struck it down as impermissible in INS v. Chadha (1983). But whereas the old legislative veto allowed Congress to act independently of the executive branch, joint resolutions of disapproval passed under the CRA still must get the president’s signature to become law. If the president thinks that the regulation in question was a sound one—which will nearly always be the case, given the president’s ability to bottle up or alter any uncongenial rule—then he can simply veto the resolution, and Congress’s efforts will have accomplished nothing other than perhaps garnering some publicity.

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https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-powerful-is-the-congressional-review-act/