# H.J.Res. 117 (119th): Relating to a national emergency by the President on July 30, 2025

Relating to a national emergency by the President on July 30, 2025

## 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: executive_authority. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: executive_power. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: national_emergency. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procedural_vote. 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 265: On Motion to Table the Motion to Discharge Committee. Vote type: recommit.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The metadata describes a procedural motion about executive emergency power, a prudential governance dispute. It names no direct moral harm being advanced or restrained, and whether it restrains or enables an unjust exercise of power depends on the emergency's underlying subject, which the metadata does not provide.
Theological note: The measure's relevance lies in the proper limits of executive emergency authority under constitutional order and civil equity. Scripture's teaching on just rule and the restraint of unchecked power bears on whether emergency powers are exercised with accountability. The procedural vote itself does not name a direct moral harm.

## Recorded votes

Roll 265: On Motion to Table the Motion to Discharge Committee. Yea 200 · Nay 198 · Other 34.

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