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Enact the Midnight Rules Relief Act to undo late regulations in bulk

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 2, p. 50. Written by Russ Vought.

Enact the Midnight Rules Relief Act to undo late regulations in bulk

The document says “should”Who acts: President, CongressHow: legislationp. 50 in the PDF
What the document says

“Congress and the President should enact the Midnight Rules Relief Act”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 50

The Congressional Review Act lets Congress undo recent regulatory actions on an accelerated timetable. The chapter says the Midnight Rules Relief Act would let multiple actions be packaged and voted on together, and that robust use of the Congressional Review Act would let the President spend rulemaking capacity on new reforms rather than years undoing the previous Administration's final rules.

What the document actually says

“Congress and the President should enact the Midnight Rules Relief Act”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 50
That sentence, in plain words

Congress and the president should pass a new law. It is called the Midnight Rules Relief Act.

What this is about

A president often issues many rules just before he leaves. Congress can undo them, but only one at a time. This bill would let Congress undo them in one batch.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed comes close. The Midnight Rules Relief Act has not been enacted, and the laws among the candidates concern the Congressional Award Program rather than the Congressional Review Act. Executive Order 14295 on the Office of the Federal Register touches the publication of rules but creates no procedure for disapproving several rules in a single vote, which is what the bill would do. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 50.
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    “Enact the Midnight Rules Relief Act to undo late regulations in bulk,” Project 2025, chapter 2, p. 50. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch02-midnight-rules-relief-act/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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