Most Americans have never heard of the Congressional Review Act (CRA). It gives Congress the means to overturn regulations from the nation’s chief executive, more specifically, orders from the president.The law gives Congress the authority, by a simple majority, to erase regulations dating back to the beginning of the Obama administration. Frustrated in not being able to get many of his pet bills through Congress, President Barack Obama became a top executive order president. His regulations can be overturned and the CRA can ensure that those rules do not come back, even under a Democratic president.Federal agencies that didn’t file a report to Congress on new rules by executive order within 60 days, those regulations can be dropped by Congress under the CRA. In the future, rules that are the same as the old ones can’t be reordered by a different administration. The CRA also limits debate time on trying to bring back a rule that was dropped by Congress.Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Kimberley Strassel said the entire point of the CRA was to help legislators rein in administrations that ignored statutes and the will of Congress.“Few White House occupants ever showed more contempt for the law and lawmakers than Mr. Obama. Republicans if anything should take pride in using a duly passed statute to dispense of his wayward regulatory regime. It’d be a fitting and just end to Mr. Obama’s abuse of authority — and one of the better uses of time this Congress could ever make.”The CRA is a safeguard against violations of the separation of powers under our Constitution.