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Congressional Review Act

Lawalso called chapter 8 of title 5, congressional disapproval

A 1996 law that lets Congress overturn a federal agency rule by passing a joint resolution of disapproval, which the president can sign or veto. In the Senate these resolutions cannot be filibustered, and a rule overturned this way cannot be reissued in substantially the same form.

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