{ "id": "79-206", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "number": "79-206", "active": false, "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs8141/", "id": "79-206 1979-09-24", "date": "1979-09-24", "retrieved": "2006-02-24T11:09:54", "title": "Congressional Action to Overturn Agency Rules: Alternatives to the \"Legislative Veto\"", "summary": "Congress has available a variety of statutory and non-statutory techniques, other than the \"legislative veto,\" that have been used to overturn Federal agency rules, prevent their enforcement, limit their impact, or hinder their promulgation. This survey of the different statutory instruments of congressional control\u2014direct overturn of rules, modification of agency jurisdiction, limitations in authorizing and appropriating statutes, requiring inter-agency consultation, and advance notification to the Congress\u2014discusses a variety of mechanisms that vary in their use and their specificity, range of impact, and length of effect.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORT", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "filename": "files/19790924_79-206_94ce4e2d4f7d510a9e391f0b9aeae18ccb93fc46.pdf" }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/19790924_79-206_94ce4e2d4f7d510a9e391f0b9aeae18ccb93fc46.html" } ], "topics": [ { "source": "LIV", "id": "Congress", "name": "Congress" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Congressional oversight", "name": "Congressional oversight" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Congressional-executive relations", "name": "Congressional-executive relations" }, { "source": "LIV", "id": "Executive departments", "name": "Executive departments" } ] } ], "topics": [] }