Congress can vote on multiple end-of-term rules at once.
H.R. 77 — Midnight Rules Relief Act · Filed by Andy Biggs (R-AZ) · 12 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill changes how Congress votes on rules made in a leader's final year. Congress can now vote on many rules in one vote. Before, Congress had to vote on each rule alone. The bill changes the Congressional Review Act. That law lets Congress reject rules made by agencies.
Who it affects
Congress members can vote faster on rules from a leader's final year. Agencies may change when they issue rules. Rules that protect nature, workers, or shoppers could be rejected more quickly.
One thing to notice
When Congress votes on many rules at once, each rule gets less focus. The bill only applies to rules from a leader's final year.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
12 cosponsors: 12 Republicans.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Rules and House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be…”
- Feb 12, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 212 - 208 (Roll no. 41). (text: CR H654)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
3 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 7 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $55,339,417 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 61 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 61% of bills with any report.
Andy Biggs, who sponsored the bill, received $9,100 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $54,660,000 in 3 reports
- American Society of Civil Engineers — $489,417 in 2 reports
- American Lung Association — $190,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Congressional Review Act — A law that lets Congress reject rules made by agencies.
- agencies — Parts of the government that make and enforce rules.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,302 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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