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Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring compliance with Clean Air Act rules concerning national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants with respect to brick and structural clay products manufacturing or clay ceramics manufacturing until judicial reviews of the rules are complete.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 4557 as passed House without amendment on Mar 3, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Mar 3, 2016
Blocking Regulatory Interference from Closing Kilns Act of 2016
Passed
238 Yea 163 Nay 32 not voting
Party-line vote 7 of 401 voting members broke with their own party: 7 Democrats.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 4557 and vote against it. 4 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 4557 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
15 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.