The past several weeks, Republicans in Washington have worked behind closed doors using a seldom-used law called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to gut important protections that impact you and your family.
House Republicans have already used the CRA to make it easier for coal companies to dump toxic waste in our waterways, allow big oil and gas companies to pollute our air with methane leaks, and help oil, gas, and mining companies hide their payments to foreign governments. They have also worked to roll back education standards, provisions under the Affordable Care Act, and a rule long-hated by the gun lobby that prevents people with severe mental illnesses from purchasing firearms.
And that’s just last week. This week, Republicans in Washington used the CRA to roll back safeguards on Title X, a rule designed to shield federally funded family planning clinics across the country from partisan state-level defunding efforts…
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