Congress quietly flips the switch on hundreds of regulations at once

What it does

This bill directs the Government Accountability Office to identify all federal regulations that were upheld in court because judges deferred to agency interpretations under the Chevron doctrine, then automatically terminates those rules on a staggered schedule—the most recent rule 30 days after publication, then each older rule 30 days after the one before it. It also exempts these rules from the normal Congressional Review Act 60-day window, allowing Congress to disapprove them without the usual time constraint.

Why we flagged it

The bill's operative function is to automatically sunset a broad class of existing regulations without requiring affirmative repeal—a mass deregulation device disguised as a procedural reform targeting a single judicial doctrine. It reverses the normal legislative burden: instead of Congress voting to repeal rules, Congress must vote to save them.

What the text implies

• The staggered 30-day sunset schedule creates a cascading termination event: rules expire in waves, potentially destabilizing regulatory regimes (e.g., environmental, financial, labor) that depend on multiple interlocking rules. Agencies cannot replace them quickly enough.
• The bill exempts these rules from the Congressional Review Act's 60-day window, meaning Congress has no standard procedural time to deliberate before rules vanish—the CRA normally gives Congress a fixed window to disapprove; this bill gives Congress a fixed window to approve, inverting the default.
• Chevron deference has been the judicial standard for decades; this bill retroactively targets all rules ever upheld under it, potentially affecting hundreds or thousands of regulations across all agencies. The scope is massive but obscured by the narrow title.
• Rules upheld under Chevron deference include major environmental (Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act), labor (OSHA), consumer protection (CFPB), and financial regulations. Terminating them en masse without individual congressional votes on each one bypasses normal legislative deliberation.
• The bill does not require the GAO to assess whether rules are still necessary, effective, or supported by current evidence—it terminates them based solely on the judicial doctrine used to uphold them, not on policy merit.

Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.

Who it affects

The bill terminates existing regulations that protect consumers, workers, and the environment without requiring affirmative congressional action to repeal them—the default is erasure. Citizens lose the protections those rules provided (clean air, water, workplace safety, consumer finance safeguards, etc.) unless Congress votes to reinstate each one individually, reversing the normal legislative burden and creating a mass deregulation event.

Who stands to gain

• fossil fuel and energy companies
• financial services firms (banks, lenders, investment firms)
• pharmaceutical and healthcare companies
• manufacturing and industrial firms
• agricultural corporations
• telecommunications companies

Named in the bill

Government Accountability Office (GAO), Comptroller General, Federal courts, Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Congress, Federal agencies, Congressional Review Act (CRA), Title 5 United States Code

Where it stands

16 cosponsors: 16 Republicans.

• Jan 9, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
• Jan 9, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Rules and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government…”

Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.

Money around this bill

1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $1,005,758 in lobbying spend. A filing names 133 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.

More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.

Mark Green, the sponsor, reported $29,535 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.

• National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies — $1,005,758 on 2 filings

Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.