The House voted Tuesday afternoon to stop the Obama administration's effort to re-write coal mining regulations, and require the administration to use a rule developed under the Bush administration.

Members passed the Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act, H.R. 2824, in a 229-192 vote. The bill was supported by 10 Democrats, and opposed by seven Republicans.

Republicans have consistently criticized the administration's 2009 decision to scrap the Bush-era rule, and its effort to develop a new rule that a 2011 press report said would cut 7,000 jobs and hurt the economy in 22 states.

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