Bill
S.J.Res. 71 (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 President Trump declared on January 20, 2025, in Executive Order 14156. The order cites insufficient U.S. energy supply and infrastructure, defines energy broadly (including fossil fuels, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal, hydropower, and critical minerals), and directs agencies to use emergency and other authorities to approve domestic energy development, expedite infrastructure (particularly in the Northeast, West Coast, and Alaska), use emergency permitting under certain environmental regulations, and direct the Department of Defense to assess and address energy acquisition and transport vulnerabilities through emergency military construction authority.
Theological note: The measure bears on the proper limits of executive emergency power and the stewardship of energy resources. Scripture supports lawful order, the restraint of unaccountable authority, and responsible stewardship of creation, while also recognizing that the provision of energy and infrastructure is a legitimate civil concern. Whether the emergency declaration is prudent or excessive is a matter of contested policy judgment rather than a clear moral verdict on the face of the metadata.
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: environmental_permitting. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: executive_authority. 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 554: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 71. Vote type: final_passage.
- Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The resolution would end an emergency declaration that expands executive discretion, which can restrain unaccountable government power, but the underlying energy and infrastructure goals are ordinary prudential policy goods. The emergency's environmental permitting shortcuts and military construction authority raise real governance concerns, yet the metadata does not show a direct advancement of moral harm. The combination of legitimate ends, contested means, and executive-power concerns places the measure in the mixed category.
- Theological note: The measure bears on the proper limits of executive emergency power and the stewardship of energy resources. Scripture supports lawful order, the restraint of unaccountable authority, and responsible stewardship of creation, while also recognizing that the provision of energy and infrastructure is a legitimate civil concern. Whether the emergency declaration is prudent or excessive is a matter of contested policy judgment rather than a clear moral verdict on the face of the metadata.
Debt and war Cloture and Tier 1 Procedural votes Scoring mechanics war funding
Roll
Recorded votes
Roll 554 · October 8, 2025, 07:05 PM · On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 71 · Joint Resolution Defeated (47-51)
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
- CRAMER, KEVIN MR.
- CRAPO, MICHAEL D
- 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.
- SULLIVAN, DAN
- THUNE, JOHN R.
- TILLIS, THOM R SEN
- TUBERVILLE, THOMAS H
- WICKER, ROGER SEN.
- YOUNG, TODD CHRISTOPHER