[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 8 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]






                                                         Calendar No. 8
111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                  S. 8

   To return the Government to the people by reviewing controversial 
    ``midnight regulations'' issued in the waning days of the Bush 
                            Administration.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 6, 2009

 Mr. Reid (for himself, Mr. Levin, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Begich, Mr. Durbin, 
Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Casey, Mr. Lautenberg, Ms. 
Stabenow, Mrs. McCaskill, Ms. Klobuchar, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Schumer, Ms. 
Mikulski, and Mr. Brown) introduced the following bill; which was read 
                             the first time

                            January 7, 2009

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
   To return the Government to the people by reviewing controversial 
    ``midnight regulations'' issued in the waning days of the Bush 
                            Administration.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Returning Government to the American 
People Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Bush Administration should not rush into effect 
        major new controversial regulations in its closing days;
            (2) the incoming Administration, working with the Congress, 
        should review and, if appropriate revise or reject such 
        ``midnight regulations''; and
            (3) if legislation is necessary to ensure the new 
        Administration has this opportunity, that Congress should 
        enact, and the President should sign, such legislation.
                                                         Calendar No. 8

111th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                  S. 8

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

   To return the Government to the people by reviewing controversial 
    ``midnight regulations'' issued in the waning days of the Bush 
                            Administration.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            January 7, 2009

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar