Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2025

S. 164, the Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2025, would amend the Congressional Review Act (chapter 8 of title 5, U.S. Code) to allow Congress to bundle multiple "midnight rules" — federal regulations submitted during the final year of a President's term — into a single joint resolution of disapproval, rather than requiring a separate resolution for each rule. It also specifies the standard wording such a combined resolution must use, listing each disapproved rule and the agency that issued it.

The bill affects federal agencies whose regulations are issued late in a presidential term, since those rules could be disapproved more efficiently as a group. It also affects how Congress itself operates procedurally under the Congressional Review Act, giving lawmakers a streamlined tool to overturn multiple late-term regulations at once rather than voting on each individually.

The bill was introduced in the Senate on January 21, 2025, by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) with five cosponsors, and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. On August 6, 2026, the committee ordered it to be reported favorably without amendment. Its next step would be consideration by the full Senate.

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