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Today, Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-MI) announced his support for using the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify President Biden’s Vaccine Mandate related to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) employees. Using the CRA to strike down the CMS Mandate will remove the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for virtually all health care employees.

“Since President Biden first announced his unconstitutional mandates, I have been deeply concerned about their real world impact on our supply chain, logistics, food processors, and health care systems,” said Congressman Bill Huizenga. “I have heard from multiple health care providers throughout Michigan about this mandate and how it will negatively impact their workforce to the point where they may no longer be able to provide acceptable levels of care for patients. We cannot allow Washington to devastate our care systems across Michigan by threatening the jobs of nurses, health care workers, and doctors with coercive mandates. By using the Congressional Review Act, Congress can place an important check on the Biden Administration’s executive overreach. Health care workers have performed heroically during this incredibly challenging time. President Biden and bureaucrats in Washington shouldn’t be trying to issue them pink slips.”

Full text of the resolution can be found here. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) has also introduced companion legislation in the Senate

Background: The Congressional Review Act process is the legal process whereby Congress can overturn an Administration regulation, once it has been properly noticed. “Proper notice” occurs once a regulation is printed in the Federal Register and received by the Clerks of the House and Senate. The CMS vaccine mandate regulation was printed in the Federal Register on November 5, 2021. It was noted as received by the Senate Clerk on December 1, 2021, and by the House Clerk on December 9, 2021. Now that all three of those notices have been received, a CRA receives privilege in the House if the Minority Leader brings it up as a “privileged resolution,” which means the House must bring the legislation to the floor for a vote.