John Siciliano of the Washington Examiner reports on efforts to ensure that the Obama administration engages in no more shenanigans linked to climate alarmism in the next few weeks.
The GOP-controlled Congress is in a race to fight off any last-minute attempts by Democrats to push through any more of President Obama’s climate priorities before he leaves office, and before the next administration has a chance to upend the last eight years of work.
The House has already begun its big anti-regulation push against Obama’s 11th-hour attempt to secure environmental and energy regulations as his presidency ends.
GOP lawmakers passed a bill Nov. 17, the Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2016, that would give them the power to target multiple regulations under the Congressional Review Act, which grants them the power to pass resolutions of disapproval through a simple majority in order to repeal regulations.
“Given the arrogance this president and the administration under his direction continues to exhibit in his last days — with more and more ruthless regulations smothering the American people — this bill is the least we should do to force more accountability on his imperial actions,” said Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, and a vocal critic of the administration’s energy agenda.