# S.J.Res. 49 (119th): A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.

A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.

## 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: civil_authority. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: emergency_powers. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: executive_overreach. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: government_overreach. 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 225: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 49. Vote type: final_passage.
Roll 226: On the Motion to Table S.J.Res. 49. Vote type: recommit.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill concerns a prudential trade and emergency-powers dispute. Terminating an emergency could restrain possible executive overreach and restore legislative accountability, but tariff policy is a contested economic judgment and the resolution does not directly restrain a named moral evil. The existing 'mixed' polarity is consistent with this profile, though the existing 'appropriations' tag does not fit a tariff-termination resolution.
Theological note: The issue touches the Reformed concern for limited and accountable civil authority under general equity: whether emergency powers over commerce are checked by legislative accountability and whether rulers may impose burdens on neighbors without clear warrant. The measure does not itself address a direct moral evil such as bloodshed, sexual corruption, or the killing of the innocent, so its relevance is prudential and structural rather than a hard moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 225: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 49. Yea 49 · Nay 49 · Other 2.
Roll 226: On the Motion to Table S.J.Res. 49. Yea 49 · Nay 49 · Other 2.

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