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BumRushDaShow

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12. There is also the "Congressional Review Act"

Reply to Igel (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 01:53 PM

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https://www.gao.gov/legal/congressional-review-act/FAQs-on-the-Congressional-Review-Act

that allows Congress to pass a Resolution disapproving the Regulation but that inevitably goes to the President, who more often than not will veto it. However if enough members voted for the Resolution, they could override the veto (and that as well as a President actually agreeing to the issue, has happened a few times in the past).

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