Bill
S.J.Res. 81 (119th): A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Brazil.
A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Brazil.
Summary
Recorded summary
This joint resolution would terminate the national emergency that President Trump declared in a July 30, 2025 executive order. That order imposed an additional 40% tariff on certain imports from Brazil based on the emergency declaration. The order exempted certain products, including civil aircraft and parts, wood pulp, precious metals, energy products, and fertilizers.
Theological note: The issue touches on the proper limits of executive authority and on whether emergency powers are being used with restraint and accountability under law, which Scripture's concern for lawful, bounded authority bears on. Tariff policy itself is a prudential question of trade and economic judgment, and the bill does not clearly involve a direct moral evil such as injustice to persons or the advancing of a named moral harm.
Scoring
How this bill is scored
- Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Lane: appropriations. Category: corruption_stewardship. Lane tag: general equity.
- Lane: debt_spending. Category: honest_money. Lane tag: prudential.
- Lane: emergency_powers_review. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: foreign_policy_trade. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: tariffs. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: trade_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- 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 594: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 81. Vote type: final_passage.
- Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill concerns a prudential trade dispute over tariffs, which is an ordinary policy matter. It also raises a legitimate concern about whether a national emergency declaration is being stretched to impose broad economic penalties without clear ongoing justification. Because it does not directly advance or directly restrain a named moral harm, the classification is mixed rather than good or evil.
- Theological note: The issue touches on the proper limits of executive authority and on whether emergency powers are being used with restraint and accountability under law, which Scripture's concern for lawful, bounded authority bears on. Tariff policy itself is a prudential question of trade and economic judgment, and the bill does not clearly involve a direct moral evil such as injustice to persons or the advancing of a named moral harm.
Debt and war Cloture and Tier 1 Procedural votes Scoring mechanics monetary injustice economic justice
Roll
Recorded votes
Roll 594 · October 28, 2025, 06:10 PM · On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 81 · Joint Resolution Passed (52-48)
Yea
- ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA
- BALDWIN, TAMMY
- BENNET, MICHAEL F.
- BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
- BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
- BOOKER, CORY A.
- CANTWELL, MARIA
- COLLINS, SUSAN M.
- 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.
- MCCONNELL, MITCH
- MERKLEY, JEFFREY ALAN
- MURKOWSKI, LISA
- MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER S
- MURRAY, PATTY
- OSSOFF, T. JONATHAN
- PADILLA, ALEX
- PAUL, RAND
- PETERS, GARY
- REED, JOHN F.
- ROSEN, JACKY
- SANDERS, BERNARD
- SCHATZ, BRIAN
- SCHIFF, ADAM
- SCHUMER, CHARLES E.
- SHAHEEN, JEANNE
- SLOTKIN, ELISSA
- SMITH, TINA
- TILLIS, THOM R SEN
- 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.
- CORNYN, JOHN SEN
- COTTON, THOMAS
- CRAMER, KEVIN MR.
- 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
- MCCORMICK, DAVE
- MOODY, ASHLEY
- MORAN, JERRY
- MORENO, BERNIE
- MULLIN, MARKWAYNE
- RICKETTS, PETE
- RISCH, JAMES E MR.
- ROUNDS, MIKE
- SCHMITT, ERIC
- SCOTT, RICK SEN
- SCOTT, TIMOTHY E.
- SHEEHY, TIM
- SULLIVAN, DAN
- THUNE, JOHN R.
- TUBERVILLE, THOMAS H
- WICKER, ROGER SEN.
- YOUNG, TODD CHRISTOPHER