Artificial intelligence (AI) would be used to review federal agency regulations to identify redundant and outdated rules under legislation offered on Jan. 22 by U.S. Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT).
“I have always prioritized solutions-first approaches to making our government more efficient,” Rep. Moore said. “This bill takes a meaningful step toward identifying and eliminating duplicative and outdated regulations, and I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass it and advance a government that better serves the American people.”
Specifically, the Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Streamline the Code of Federal Regulations Act of 2026, H.R. 7226, would use AI to streamline the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) — which has grown to nearly 200,000 pages over the past 50 years.
The ballooning CFR is now unsustainably large, according to Rep. Moore, and reflects the need to implement innovative tools to ensure it contains fully effective, non-duplicative regulations.
If enacted, H.R. 7226 would direct the Office of Management and Budget to create an annual process to identify redundant or outdated regulations in the CFR using an AI tool that would recommend identified regulations for removal and refer them to the applicable agency.
The agency then would decide whether that regulation is eligible for removal under the bill’s definition of redundant or outdated, according to a bill summary provided by Rep. Moore’s staff.
The AI tool would not replace professionals or make automatic cuts. Instead, it would work in conjunction with agency personnel to recommend opportunities for streamlining, the summary says.
H.R. 7226 is companion legislation to the identical bill led by U.S. Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Jon Husted (R-OH) in the Senate.