A bill seeking to bring greater transparency and objectivity to the sausage-making of regulatory rulemaking has passed in the House of Representatives and now awaits a vote in the Senate.

The Regulatory Integrity Act, “would help restore the integrity of the federal government’s rulemaking process,” says Rep. Tim Walberg’s (R-Mich.), the bill’s sponsor. The proposed legislation recently passed with a 246-176 vote in the House.