The list includes a Labor Department rule that more than doubled the salary threshold for full-time employees to get overtime compensation. Though its legality is tied up in court, a resolution to strike the rule altogether could originate in the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
Another rule expected to be finalized by the Obama administration before it departs would prevent states from blocking federal Title X family planning funds to planned parenthood because some of its clinics provide abortion services.
Lawmakers have 60 legislative days from the time a rule is finalized to pass resolutions of disapproval.
The resolutions either have to be signed into law by the President or enacted over his veto by two-thirds of both houses of Congress. House lawmakers could act until May 17 at the latest, according to the current 2017 calendar.
The Congressional Research Service determined that rules which have become final under the Obama administration since June 13 could qualify for Congressional Review Act disapproval. But Obama oppositionists won’t have many successful precedents to draw on as they try to scotch the so-called midnight regulations.
Since its enactment in 1996, the Congressional Review Act has only been used to kill one regulation. In 2001, former President George W. Bush signed a resolution that overturned an Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule issued at the end of the Clinton administration, dealing with workplace ergonomic standards.