CRA “Lookback” Deadline: August 1, 2024?
CRA “Lookback” Deadline: August 1, 2024? The Buzz recently discussed the importance of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to the administration’s regulatory agenda and how the CRA’s “lookback” provision allows a new Congress to review and rescind regulations finalized within sixty days of the previous Congress’s adjournment . This week, the Congressional Research Service provided some more clarity as to when that sixty-day marker might fall, though it was quick to point out that “[i]t is not possible to know with certainty what date the 2024 lookback period will begin until the end of the 118th Congress.” CRS wrote: CRS unofficially estimates that Biden Administration rules submitted to the House or Senate on or after August 1, 2024, until the end of the second session of the 118th Congress are likely to be subject to the CRA lookback provisions and will qualify for additional periods of CRA review in the first few months of the first session of the 119th Congress (2025). This me...