EO 13892 required agencies to act transparently and fairly in civil administrative enforcement and said no person should face such action without prior public notice of jurisdiction and applicable legal standards. It also required agencies to avoid unfair surprise when imposing penalties and to give affected persons an opportunity to be heard with a written response.
This is the clearest official analogue for the promise: clear legal standards, safeguards before penalties, and opportunity to contest agency action. It was an executive order, not a statute, and it predated James's House service.
EO 13992 expressly revoked Executive Order 13892 and directed OMB and agency heads to rescind rules, regulations, guidelines, policies, or portions thereof implementing or enforcing the revoked Trump regulatory orders.
Before James entered Congress, the federal executive policy most closely matching the promise had been revoked, leaving the promise unfulfilled by standing executive action at the start of his House service.
Congress.gov lists H.R.277 as passed by the House on June 14, 2023, 221-210, with latest action in the Senate on June 21, 2023: read the second time and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar. CRS summary says the bill would establish a congressional approval process for major rules, so a major rule could take effect only if Congress approved it.
H.R.277 addressed the legislative-oversight portion of the promise by requiring congressional approval of major agency rules, but it did not enact the full promised package and did not become law in the 118th Congress.
The Clerk records Roll Call 265 on H.R.277, REINS Act, as passed 221-210. The vote list records Representative James, Republican, Michigan, as voting Yea.
James personally supported a concrete House-passed bill to increase congressional oversight of major regulations. This is effort evidence, not delivery, because the bill did not become enacted law.
EO 14148 revoked many Biden executive actions, including EO 13992, which had revoked EO 13892. The order describes this as part of restoring common sense to the federal government and reducing regulatory burdens.
The 2025 executive order removed the Biden order that had revoked EO 13892, but it did not itself enact a statute or expressly recreate the full package of clear standards, appeal rights, and legislative oversight. This supports at most partial later-term movement, not full fulfillment by James.