A veritable smorgasbord of final rules adopted by regulatory agencies since May potentially could be on the chopping block as many conservatives in Congress plan to exercise, quite liberally, the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law allowing Congress to reverse regulations enacted within the previous 60 legislative days.
The determining factors for what regulations are in danger of repeal include the exact timeframe during which certain regulations were published in the Federal Register and whether those publication dates fall within the aforementioned span of 60 days during which Congress was in session. Read on to learn what regulations could be repealed.