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What do you get when you combine 500 federal agencies, billions in regulatory costs, and bureaucratic proposals to control greenhouse gases and the Internet? One angry electorate, and now, one irritated Congress. 

This week the House will try to unweave President Obama’s vast regulatory web through traditional legislative efforts and the forgotten Congressional Review Act (CRA). On Tuesday a bipartisan group of representatives passed H.J. Res. 37, which would employ the CRA to rescind the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules. Chairman Fred Upton’s bill, H.R. 910, which prevents the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and should receive a vote today or tomorrow.  

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