And So It Goes

House Republicans are doing everything in their power to keep the Obama administration from enacting any new rules in its final days.

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Despite Democratic opposition, the Midnight Rule Relief Act passed largely along party lines, by a 240-179 vote. The bill would amend the Congressional Review Act to allow Congress to overturn many rules all at once by way of a resolution.

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“This bill guarantees that Congress can prevent any and all last-minute defiance of the people’s will by midnight regulations that stubbornly seem to entrench the last pieces of the administration's bipartisan agenda.”

  The Hill

I thought bipartisan was supposed to be a good thing.

The administration has already threatened a veto if the bill were to make it to the president’s desk.

Federal agencies are rushing out a final volley of executive actions in the last two months of Barack Obama’s presidency, despite warnings from Republicans in Congress and the reality that Donald Trump will have the power to erase much of their handiwork after Jan. 20.

  Politico

Hey, they've been wasting the country's time for their entire existence, why stop them at this point?

Regulations on commodities speculation, air pollution from the oil industry, doctors’ Medicare drug payments and high-skilled immigrant workers are among the rules moving through the pipeline as Obama’s administration grasps at one last chance to cement his legacy.

Because they couldn't have worked on those things eight years ago, I guess.

Also moving ahead are negotiations on an investment treaty with China and decisions by the Education Department on whether to offer debt relief to students at defunct for-profit colleges. The Department of Transportation may also go ahead with a ban on cellphone calls on commercial flights and a rule requiring that most freight trains have at least two crew members on duty.

What? A freight train can have only one person on duty?

[T]he Interior Department has failed to release a long-awaited rule to protect streams from coal mining pollution — and indications are it might never issue it.

Now that's the way you handle things. Sit on them.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.