# H.Res. 161 (119th): This resolution provides for the consideration of three measures

This resolution provides for the consideration of three measures. Specifically, it provides for the consideration of H.J. Res. 20, nullifying the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters ; H.J. Res. 35, nullifying the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions ; and H.Con.Res. 14, establishing the congressional budget for FY2025 and setting forth budgetary levels for FY2026 through FY2034.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: budget. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: debt_spending. Category: honest_money. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procedural. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_review. 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 46: On Ordering the Previous Question. Vote type: procedural.
Roll 47: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a procedural vehicle for ordinary regulatory and budgetary disputes: energy efficiency standards, a methane emissions charge, and a federal budget resolution. Each involves legitimate prudential goods and concerns, such as consumer cost, environmental stewardship, fiscal discipline, and regulatory burden. The summary does not show direct advancement of a named moral harm or direct restraint of one, so 'mixed' is the prudent classification.
Theological note: The measures touch stewardship of creation and of material resources, the just ordering of public finance, and the duty of government to serve the common good with prudence. Whether these disputes bear on neighbor-love and faithful stewardship depends on contested empirical and policy judgments, so this is issue relevance rather than a final candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 46: On Ordering the Previous Question. Yea 216 · Nay 210 · Other 7.
Roll 47: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Yea 217 · Nay 211 · Other 5.

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