Bill
S.J.Res. 10 (119th): A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy.
A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy.
Summary
Recorded summary
This joint resolution would terminate the national emergency relating to energy that the President declared on January 20, 2025, in Executive Order 14156. The order cites insufficient energy supply and infrastructure and directs agencies to use emergency and other authorities to approve domestic energy development, expedite energy infrastructure (particularly in the Northeast, West Coast, and Alaska), and use emergency permitting provisions. It also directs the Department of Defense to assess its ability to acquire and transport energy resources and invokes emergency military construction authority for identified vulnerabilities.
Theological note: Scripture calls rulers to justice and restraint, and it warns against unchecked power that bypasses ordinary lawful process. Whether an emergency declaration over energy is warranted is a prudential question about stewardship of creation, national provision, and environmental and economic tradeoffs. The main moral issue is whether standing emergency powers are being used to override ordinary constitutional limits, which is a question of general equity rather than a clear verdict on energy policy itself.
Scoring
How this bill is scored
- Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Lane: emergency_powers. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: executive_authority. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: executive_emergency_powers. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: executive_overreach. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: limited_government. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: national_emergency. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: war_funding. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
- Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
- Roll 95: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 10. Vote type: final_passage.
- Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: Terminating an emergency declaration restrains the use of extraordinary executive powers, which is a legitimate concern for limited government. However, the underlying energy policy is an ordinary prudential dispute about supply, infrastructure, and permitting, and the summary does not show a direct moral harm being advanced or restrained. The classification therefore combines a real restraint concern with prudential policy disagreement.
- Theological note: Scripture calls rulers to justice and restraint, and it warns against unchecked power that bypasses ordinary lawful process. Whether an emergency declaration over energy is warranted is a prudential question about stewardship of creation, national provision, and environmental and economic tradeoffs. The main moral issue is whether standing emergency powers are being used to override ordinary constitutional limits, which is a question of general equity rather than a clear verdict on energy policy itself.
Debt and war Cloture and Tier 1 Procedural votes Scoring mechanics war funding
Roll
Recorded votes
Roll 95 · February 26, 2025, 05:26 PM · On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 10 · Joint Resolution Defeated (47-52)
Yea
- ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA
- BALDWIN, TAMMY
- BENNET, MICHAEL F.
- BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
- BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
- BOOKER, CORY A.
- CANTWELL, MARIA
- COONS, CHRISTOPHER A.
- CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
- DUCKWORTH, L. TAMMY
- DURBIN, RICHARD J.
- FETTERMAN, JOHN KARL
- GALLEGO, RUBEN
- GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN
- HASSAN, MARGARET WOOD
- HEINRICH, MARTIN
- HICKENLOOPER, JOHN W.
- HIRONO, MAZIE K.
- KAINE, TIMOTHY MICHAEL
- KELLY, MARK
- KIM, ANDY
- KING, ANGUS S. JR.
- KLOBUCHAR, AMY
- LUJAN, BEN RAY
- MARKEY, EDWARD SEN.
- MERKLEY, JEFFREY ALAN
- MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER S
- MURRAY, PATTY
- OSSOFF, T. JONATHAN
- PADILLA, ALEX
- PETERS, GARY
- REED, JOHN F.
- ROSEN, JACKY
- SANDERS, BERNARD
- SCHATZ, BRIAN
- SCHIFF, ADAM
- SCHUMER, CHARLES E.
- SHAHEEN, JEANNE
- SLOTKIN, ELISSA
- SMITH, TINA
- VAN HOLLEN, CHRIS
- WARNER, MARK ROBERT
- WARNOCK, RAPHAEL
- WARREN, ELIZABETH
- WELCH, PETER
- WHITEHOUSE, SHELDON
- WYDEN, RONALD L.
Nay
- BANKS, JAMES E. HON.
- BARRASSO, JOHN A
- BLACKBURN, MARSHA MRS.
- BOOZMAN, SEN. JOHN
- BRITT, KATIE BOYD
- BUDD, THEODORE P
- CAPITO, SHELLEY MOORE
- CASSIDY, WILLIAM M.
- COLLINS, SUSAN M.
- CORNYN, JOHN SEN
- COTTON, THOMAS
- CRAPO, MICHAEL D
- CRUZ, RAFAEL EDWARD TED
- CURTIS, JOHN
- DAINES, STEVE
- ERNST, JONI K
- FISCHER, DEBRA S.
- GRAHAM, LINDSEY O.
- GRASSLEY, CHARLES E
- HAGERTY, BILL
- HAWLEY, JOSHUA DAVID SEN
- HOEVEN, JOHN
- HUSTED, JON
- HYDE-SMITH, CINDY
- JOHNSON, RON HAROLD MR.
- JUSTICE, JAMES CONLEY II
- KENNEDY, JOHN NEELY
- LANKFORD, JAMES PAUL
- LEE, MIKE
- LUMMIS, CYNTHIA MARIE MRS.
- MARSHALL, ROGER W
- MCCONNELL, MITCH
- MCCORMICK, DAVE
- MOODY, ASHLEY
- MORAN, JERRY
- MORENO, BERNIE
- MULLIN, MARKWAYNE
- MURKOWSKI, LISA
- PAUL, RAND
- RICKETTS, PETE
- RISCH, JAMES E MR.
- ROUNDS, MIKE
- SCHMITT, ERIC
- SCOTT, RICK SEN
- SCOTT, TIMOTHY E.
- SHEEHY, TIM
- SULLIVAN, DAN
- THUNE, JOHN R.
- TILLIS, THOM R SEN
- TUBERVILLE, THOMAS H
- WICKER, ROGER SEN.
- YOUNG, TODD CHRISTOPHER