Midnight Rules Relief Act

What this does

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.

House vote · 212-208

Democrats

1–207

Republicans

211–1

Independents

0–0

How we know · 3 sourced claims

The bill amends chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, the Congressional Review Act.Source: Sec. 2 (amending 5 U.S.C. 801(d) and 802(a))
A joint resolution of disapproval may contain one or more rules if the agency report for each such rule was submitted during the final year of a President's term.Source: Sec. 2(a), new 5 U.S.C. 801(d)(4)
It supplies a revised resolving clause stating that Congress disapproves the listed rules and that such rules shall have no force or effect, with blanks and additional clauses added as needed.Source: Sec. 2(b), amending 5 U.S.C. 802(a)

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Reported lobbying

At least

organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.

A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 42 quarterly reports filed by 16 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so 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. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no 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: the extract keeps five names per measure and no ranking is available.

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 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.

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R206–1D1–201I1–0

Position

Party

State

Republicans

213

Democrats

208

Independents

YeaKevin KileyCA · District 3