Since the start of his term in Congress, Ohio senator and now-Republican vice presidential nominee J. D. Vance has sponsored two dozen GOP attempts to kill rules pushed by the Biden administration — fighting policies and protections on everything from new corporate climate disclosure rules to student loan forgiveness.
Vance’s voting record is a preview of the path the vice president might chart under a second Trump administration — and a reminder of the vulnerability of some of the Biden administration’s key successes, like consumer and worker protections issued by agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the National Labor Relations Board.
Vance, who former president Donald Trump selected as his running mate on July 15, cosponsored twenty-four bills to repeal Biden administration rules and consumer protections. He also voted in favor of nine other similar bills in the Senate, according to the Lever’s analysis of the dozens of GOP attempts to kill consumer safeguards over the last two years.
All of these bills were introduced under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), a 1996 law that allows lawmakers to overturn new regulations during a short review period after they’ve been finalized, a powerful tool for an incoming administration to undo a predecessor’s policies. Over the last two years, these bills were blocked either by the Democrats’ narrow Senate majority, or a veto from President Joe Biden, keeping the rules in place.
Yet the CRA’s deadline has been looming over the remaining months of Biden’s tenure as president. Under this obscure law, rules that are not yet finalized may be quickly overturned if a second Trump administration comes to power in November.
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Auteur: Katya Schwenk
