), left, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), center, and Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) at a Capitol Hill news conference on Jan. 31. If he signs off on the rollbacks, Trump will be the first president in 16 years to sign legislation using the Congressional Review Act to overturn federal regulation. The act gives Congress a limited period of time to nullify federal regulations after they’ve been finalized. [These are the two environmental rules the Republican Congress is trying to kill first]On Wednesday, the House passed two resolutions largely along party lines to overturn Obama-era rules. While environmentalists praised the rule, Republicans said it amounted to an effort to undermine energy companies and kill off jobs.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2017 23:40 UTC