[20181030]IN10660_颁布《国会审查法案》的不批准决议会产生什么影响？.pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress What Is the Effect of Enacting a Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval? Maeve P. Carey Specialist in Government Organization and Management Updated October 30, 2018 The Congressional Review Act (CRA) provides Congress with a set of special parliamentary procedures to consider legislation to overturn federal regulations. Thus far, the 115th Congress has disapproved a total of 16 regulations that had been issued by the Obama Administration, leading to questions about the effects of enactment of a CRA disapproval resolution. Enactment of a CRA joint resolution of disapproval has two primary effectsone immediate and one more long-term. The immediate effect is that a rule subject to a disapproval resolution may not go into effect, or, if the rule has already taken effect, it is treated as though it had never taken effect. Second, the agency may not reissue the rule in “substantially the same form” or issue a “new rule that is substantially the same” as the disapproved rule “unless the reissued or new rule is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the joint resolution disapproving the original ru