Little-Noticed Law Gives Trump Unexpected Power To Undo The Mischief Of Bureaucrats (READ OBAMA!) Count on Trump to Use This!

This is like Manna from heaven. Thank you Newt for getting this passed back in 1996. I've quoted just a snippit below outlining the main points. Go to the link for a fuller picture. This is HUGE and most folks don't know about it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/littlenoticed_law_gives_trump_unexpected_power_to_undo_the_mischief_of_bureaucrats_.html

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Nobody was counting on this.


Barack Obama infamously said that he would govern by a “pen and a phone.”  He has circumvented Congress and the laws for years.  The Democrats (and much of the media, but I repeat myself) have not only given him a pass, but cheered him on.  Now it appears a seldom-noticed law might be a powerful tool that Trump can use to eviscerate much of the Obama legacy.


Stacy Cowley of the New York Times reports :

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Dozens of major regulations passed recently by the Obama administration — including far-reaching changes on health care, consumer protections and environmental safety — could be undone with the stroke of a pen by Donald J. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress starting in January, thanks to a little-used law that dates back to 1996.


And it comes with a scorched-earth kicker: If the law is used to strike down a rule, the federal agency that issued it is barred from enacting similar regulation again in the future.


The obscure law — called the Congressional Review Act — was passed 20 years ago at the behest of Newt Gingrich, then the House speaker and now a member of Mr. Trump’s transition team. It gives Congress 60 legislative days to review and override major regulations enacted by federal agencies. In the Senate, the vote would not be subject to filibuster.


The president can veto the rejection, which usually renders the law toothless. But when one party controls both the White House and Congress, it can be a powerful legislative weapon.


So far it has only been successfully used once: In 2001, a Republican Congress invoked it to eliminate workplace safety regulations adopted in the final months of President Clinton’s tenure. President George W. Bush signed the repeal two months after his inauguration, wiping out stricter ergonomics rules that had been 10 years in the making.


On Jan. 20, when Mr. Trump takes office with a Republican-controlled Congress — one that has indicated its zeal for undoing President Obama’s doings — more than 150 rules adopted since late May are potentially vulnerable to the ax, according to an analysis by the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.


“It allows the election results to be applied almost retroactively, to snip off activity that happened at the end of the last administration,” said Adam Levitin, a law professor at Georgetown.

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Yes! Conservative talk radio has been all over this. Talking day one, He can executive order reverse! 
It's all going to be too cool (I hope) and weird. They say the Oval office is being remodeled and it may take a year. They also say, Trump may want to just stay at his towers  most of the time. Which is so Trump isn't it? He'll probably start calling them the Presidential Trump Towers or tower, I forget, is it just one?

And! It's what Obammy gets, He couldn't wait on congress to pass his  laws so He just exec ordered them. Now they will all get reversed(hopefully). It's really his own fault, he should have watched more Schoolhouse rock,lol, followed proper procedure and  maybe then he'd actually have a legacy. Thank Heaven he didn't.

Haven't listened to any talk radio in months. Nice to know that they've been on this. Thanks.

As for the "O" legacy . . . .