James Lankford: “A Congressional Review Act says that if there is a piece of regulation that is put in place, a rule that is done by an…”

“A Congressional Review Act says that if there is a piece of regulation that is put in place, a rule that is done by an Agency and it is put in place--especially when there is a change in Congress and the White House--that the next Congress and the next White House can look at it and say: Yeah, that is out of bounds. That is too big. That needs to be stopped. It was actually first used under President Bill Clinton. He put in what is called an ergonomics rule that literally changed the rules for every keyboard on every desk in America that would be produced. It was a giant rule they did at the very end. The next Congress came in and said: That would cost hundreds of millions of dollars. By the way, why should we in the Federal Government care what everyone's desk is like? Let people choose on that.”