Republicans Push Bill to Speed up the Repeal of Obama’s “Legacy”

Tuesday House Republicans announced plans to push through a bill that would change current House rules to make it easier and quicker to erase Obama’s “Executive Order Legacy.”

If you govern with a pen and a phone, this is what happens when you lose the election.

The “other side” erases you from history.

From Washington Examiner:

House conservatives will push a proposal Tuesday in their meeting with newly elected GOP lawmakers aimed at expediting the repeal of President Obama‘s executive orders, memorandum and regulations after President-elect Trump’s victory.

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., a vocal member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, plans to offer a bill that would change House rules to require that the House spend time each week on single-subject bills.

The goal is to ensure that the GOP majority has built in time each week to systematically take up measures to overturn some of Obama’s most controversial regulations and executive orders.

“We’ve had eight years of executive overreach, and I think Congress needs to focus on Article I power,” he told the Washington Examiner, referring to the section in the Constitution that gives lawmaking power exclusively to Congress. “I think it’s important that Congress lead this effort to restore Article I power.”

Unlike the two-thirds vote required for non-controversial “Suspension Calendar” votes, the “Article I Calendar” that Buck’s measure would create would require a simple majority for passage after a ten-minute debate for each piece of legislation considered, the same time floor amendments receive during the Appropriations process.

Buck said the effort is not only aimed at overturning some of Obama’s most controversial executive orders, but regulations that conservatives argue are too burdensome for businesses.

“Not only are we going to be dealing with executive orders, we are going to be dealing with agency regulations and specifically prohibit some of the rules that have gone through the administrative procedures process [but are not yet law] and rescind them,” he said.

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