Bill
S.J.Res. 91 (119th): A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision".
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision".
Summary
Recorded summary
This joint resolution would nullify a Bureau of Land Management record of decision issued December 9, 2024, for the Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 2024 decision made about 1.2 million of the program area's roughly 1.6 million acres unavailable for leasing and requires the statutory minimum of 400,000 acres to be offered in a specified lease sale, subject to stipulations. If enacted, the resolution would restore the 2020 decision, which made the entire program area available for leasing, and bar the agency from reissuing a substantially similar rule.
Theological note: Scripture grants humanity dominion over creation as stewardship (Genesis 1:28; Genesis 2:15), which calls for care for the land and attention to the common good and the needs of neighbors, including energy provision. Questions about how much of a wild area to open to extraction involve weighing conservation against development. Scripture does not settle the specific acreage or leasing balance, so this issue is one of prudential stewardship rather than a clear direct moral harm.
Scoring
How this bill is scored
- Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Lane: arctic_refuge. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: cra_disapproval. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: environmental_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: environmental_stewardship. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: land_use. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: public_lands. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: resource_management. 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 630: On the Motion to Proceed S.J.Res. 91. Vote type: cloture.
- Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure concerns a balance between environmental conservation of an Arctic wildlife area and energy development on public land. Both sides invoke legitimate goods (stewardship of creation and resource provision, respectively), and the dispute is prudential. It does not directly advance a named moral harm such as abortion, sexual corruption, unjust war, surveillance abuse, or monetary plunder, so it does not fit the good or evil categories cleanly.
- Theological note: Scripture grants humanity dominion over creation as stewardship (Genesis 1:28; Genesis 2:15), which calls for care for the land and attention to the common good and the needs of neighbors, including energy provision. Questions about how much of a wild area to open to extraction involve weighing conservation against development. Scripture does not settle the specific acreage or leasing balance, so this issue is one of prudential stewardship rather than a clear direct moral harm.
Debt and war Cloture and Tier 1 Procedural votes Scoring mechanics
Roll
Recorded votes
Roll 630 · December 3, 2025, 02:53 PM · On the Motion to Proceed S.J.Res. 91 · Motion to Proceed Agreed to (49-47)
Yea
- BANKS, JAMES E. HON.
- BARRASSO, JOHN A
- 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
- 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
- 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
Nay
- ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA
- BALDWIN, TAMMY
- BENNET, MICHAEL F.
- BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
- BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
- BOOKER, CORY A.
- CANTWELL, MARIA
- COLLINS, SUSAN M.
- 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.