# H.J.Res. 72 (119th): Relating to a national emergency by the President on February 1, 2025

Relating to a national emergency by the President on February 1, 2025

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: congressional_oversight. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: emergency_powers. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: executive_authority. 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 65: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The measure concerns congressional checking of an executive emergency declaration, which is a legitimate accountability function and so leans toward restraining unchecked executive power. The underlying emergency measures, which are unidentified in the metadata, are likely prudential economic or policy matters, so the bill combines a plausible structural good with ordinary policy disagreement. The existing 'unclear' rating is too conservative given the clear direction of a termination resolution, but no direct moral harm is named.
Theological note: Issue relevance: the question is whether Congress should check a presidential emergency declaration, which bears on the proper limits of executive power and the duty of rulers to act within lawful bounds under general equity. Whether the underlying emergency measures are just or prudent cannot be determined from the metadata, so no moral verdict on the policy itself is warranted here.

## Recorded votes

Roll 65: On Passage. Yea 219 · Nay 211 · Other 2.

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