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HR 77
Recent Bills/HR 77

Midnight Rules Relief Act

IntroducedJanuary 3, 2025
Passed House1 year ago
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Sitting in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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Why This Matters

This resolution lets the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs set its budget and operate from March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2027. It authorizes staffing, hearings, investigations, and spending limits.

Who this affects
Senate Committee on Homeland Security · Committee staff · Senate financial office · Federal agencies
What changes is this bill making?
  1. 1Authorizes the committee to spend money from the Senate’s contingent fund between March 1, 2025 and February 28, 2027.
  2. 2Sets spending caps: $8,380,388 through September 30, 2025; $14,366,379 for October 1, 2025–September 30, 2026; and $5,985,991 for October 1, 2026–February 28, 2027.
  3. 3Limits consultant services to $400,000 and staff training to $20,000 in each period.
  4. 4Allows the committee to hire staff and, with agency consent, use agency personnel on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis.
  5. 5Specifies that most expenses are paid without requiring vouchers, with listed exceptions for salaries, mail, and other routine services.
  6. 6Authorizes agency contributions to cover committee employee benefits from a Senate appropriations account.
  7. 7Grants the committee power to hold hearings, conduct investigations into government efficiency and misconduct, issue subpoenas, take testimony, and administer oaths.
Read the detailed summary

Midnight Rules Relief Act This bill allows Congress to disapprove multiple regulations under one joint resolution of disapproval if the regulations were submitted for review during a portion of the final year of a President's term. Under current law, the Congressional Review Act generally provides for a period of additional review during the succeeding Congress for regulations that were submitted during the last 60 legislative days of the prior Congress. However, each joint resolution may disapprove of only one regulation.

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Intro
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IntroducedJan 3, 2025
Sponsors
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HouseFeb 12, 2025
House Vote
Yes 212No 205Not Voting 16
Crossed party lines: 1 Democrat voted Yes · 1 Republican voted No
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SenateCurrent

Sitting in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Most bills stop at this point and never get a vote.

President

The President

Donald Trump
President
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