By Natalie Alms
A bill introduced Tuesday would require the Government Accountability Office to give lawmakers a list of significant midnight rules made at the end of the Trump administration that are eligible for Congressional repeal.
It was introduced by Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the subcommittee on government operations, Chairman of the subcommittee on economic and consumer policy Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), and committee member Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.).
The passage of regulations during the transition period is inherently problematic, these lawmakers wrote in a Dec. 10 letter to GAO s Comptroller General, Gene Dodaro, also signed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrod Nadler (D-N.Y.).