The Center for Progressive Reform is tracking numerous Congressional Review Act resolutions, the threats they pose to our public protections, and the benefits that would be lost if they pass. Learn more below about this dangerous anti-regulatory law and the special interests behind the resolutions in the 119th Congress.
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) is a dangerous anti-regulatory tool that came to prominence during the first Trump administration. The CRA creates a special form of legislation that can take advantage of fast-track legislative procedures — including an exemption from the Senate’s filibuster hurdle — to repeal recently issued agency rules or guidance.
The CRA includes a special “look back” provision that enables a new president and Congress to review rules issued late in the preceding presidential administration. It is this look back provision that gives the CRA most of its power.
In 2017, President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress took advantage of the look back provision to quickly repeal 14 rules issued late in the Obama administration. Over the next year, they repealed another rule and an agency guidance document using different CRA mechanisms.
Over the next few months, we will track the progress of Congressional Review Act resolutions pending before Congress. We will regularly update the embedded tracker below with information about the rules being targeted, including the benefits that would be lost if they are repealed and the democratic work that went into building the rule that would be wasted. We will contrast this information with data on the CRA resolutions themselves, including their lack of a democratic or deliberative foundation and the problematic financial relationship that exists between resolution sponsors and the industries that would benefit from the resolutions.
We also plan to provide periodic posts that summarize our analysis of the data contained in the tracker, as well as any important findings.
The “CRA By the Numbers 2025” tracker builds and expands on the original “CRA by the Numbers” project that the Center launched in 2017 to document the harms from CRA resolutions pursued during the first Trump administration. The richer detail and more extensive data the 2025 tracker provides further underscore how fundamentally flawed the CRA is.
The Center has long contended that the CRA is fundamentally anti-democratic and that its use creates the appearance, if not the reality, of political corruption that undermines public confidence in our governing institutions. Accordingly, we advocate for the repeal of this dangerous law. The data collected as part of this tracker help to support this case.
Check back on this tracker often. We will update it until the CRA’s expedited procedures expire — likely sometime in mid-May. The embedded tracker works best on a computer. You can also click here to open a larger version in a new tab.
As of February 28, legislators have introduced 45 Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions, including several that were introduced before the specified time cutoffs. As expected, we have started to see some movement around some of the resolutions.