Welcome to Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Ashken Kazarian. Don't put dirt on that neutrality's grave just yet.

The Congressional Review Act is the law by which Republican Congress and Trump administration have recently eliminated 14 of President Obama's midnight regulations by passing laws called resolutions of disapproval.

But Democrats just recently rediscovered their love for the CRA, trying to use it to bring back

the Obama-era-in-adern-ad neutrality regulations.

To discuss the CRA, I have a privilege of hosting Gigi Zon, a distinguished fellow at the

Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy,

a Mozilla fellow, and a counselor to the former chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, who has passed

the Net and Child Regulations in 2015. Also, we're joined by El Comandante of Tech Freedom,

Baron Zolk. Thanks for having me.

So, Baron, do you want to give us a brief recap of what CRA is and how it works?

So it's the Congressional Review Act.

It was one of the things that the House Republicans back under the contract for America

that they passed in the mid-90s.

And it's a procedure for disapproving of a major rule undertaken by an administrative

agency. So it has two effects. It undoes that thing, whatever that rule is, and it precludes

the agency from doing anything substantially similar. So as we discussed last time, it's been used

fairly rarely until last year.

Republicans last year did pass 15 CRAs to undo Obama era regulatory actions. But before that, it had

really only successfully been used once. So now this CRA that's being discussed, it's not quite ripe yet because it can't actually move

until the restoring Internet Freedom Order that the FCC published last year has actually

been both published in the Federal Register and sent to Congress in a report.

So once that happens, the CRA will go before the Senate Commerce Committee, and the Senate Commerce

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