Republican Window to Roll Back Obama's Rules Closes at 14-1
- Congressional Review Act used to repeal more than a dozen regs
- Methane failure in last vote highlights the political risks
The Fate of the GOP Health Bill in the Senate
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Republicans efforts to rescind a myriad of Obama-era rules ended with 14 regulations eliminated from the books but one late failure.
Since Republicans took the reins of government in Washington this year, they used a once-obscure law to rollback regulations issued by the Obama administration. They voted to overturn rules ranging from one that limited the ability of the mentally ill to buy firearms to another forcing oil companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments.