A Republican lawmaker declared an attempt Tuesday to set off an Obama administration attempt to improve an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Rule that pushes businesses to keep a lot more extensive records of workplace injuries.

The attempt aims to invalidate the rule via the Congressional Review Act, that enables Congress to hit down unconstitutional rule-makings.

Chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Ala., presented the resolution to loosen an “unlawful power grab by the Obama administration.” Particularly, it might counteract an Osha Rule, formed in December, that said that firms were accountable for any breakdown to record any workplace injury as well as illness in the past 5 years, not half a year as was the preceding standard.

The OSHA rule-making was in line with a 2012 D.C. District Court ruling against the agency in an enclosure known as Volks. The court seen that the agency did not actually have the authority to provide citations to firms for record-keeping violations older than 6 months. The agency “clarified” the present law to insist that it can achieve that, which Byrne said went beyond the boundary.

Initiatives to undo rule-makings under the CRA have infrequently been effective since the president may veto a CRA resolution. In spite of this, President Trump has authorized several resolutions under the Congressional Review Act this year, making it uncertain if he would protect a rule completed by President Obama’s administration.