H.R. 77 · 119th Congress · Government operations and politics
Midnight Rules Relief Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Feb 12, 2025
Roll call ↗212
208
Passed the House.
Passed the House on February 12, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- CommitteeJan 3, 2025
- Passed HouseFeb 12, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 12
- all Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsHouse Committee on the JudiciaryHouse Committee on Rules
- Lobbying
- At least 18
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill lets Congress disapprove several late-term regulations in a single resolution rather than one at a time.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, February 12, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The bill lets Congress disapprove several late-term regulations in a single resolution rather than one at a time. It amends the Congressional Review Act in chapter 8 of title 5 so that a joint resolution of disapproval may cover one or more rules when the agency report for each of those rules was submitted during the final year of a President's term. It also rewrites the resolving-clause language for such combined resolutions, providing a template that states Congress disapproves a listed set of named rules and that those rules shall have no force or effect, with blanks to be filled in and additional clauses added as needed. The change is a procedural tool for bundling so-called midnight rules into one up-or-down vote.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 18 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 46 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 15 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
4 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 164, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Public Citizen; League of Conservation Voters; Ppg Industries; American Coatings Association; Evonik Corporation. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 13 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.