Bill
S.J.Res. 77 (119th): A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada.
A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada.
Summary
Recorded summary
This joint resolution would terminate the national emergency President Trump declared on February 1, 2025, which imposed an additional 25% tariff on most imports from Canada. Canadian energy and energy resources would instead face an additional 10% tariff under that emergency action.
Theological note: The measure concerns whether a president may impose broad economic penalties through an emergency declaration without ongoing legislative consent. Scripture gives weight to just authority, lawful order, and fair dealing among neighbors, and these themes bear on how emergency power is exercised. The tariff's economic merits are a prudential question that Scripture does not settle directly.
Scoring
How this bill is scored
- Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Lane: canada_trade. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: emergency_declaration. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: executive_power. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: government_overreach. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: trade_tariffs. 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 598: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 77. Vote type: final_passage.
- Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The resolution restrains a contested executive emergency power used to impose tariffs, which bears on limited and accountable government under general equity. The underlying tariff policy is a prudential economic dispute about trade, costs, and diplomacy, and the metadata does not establish direct moral harm. The combination of a real structural concern with a prudential trade question makes 'mixed' the prudent classification.
- Theological note: The measure concerns whether a president may impose broad economic penalties through an emergency declaration without ongoing legislative consent. Scripture gives weight to just authority, lawful order, and fair dealing among neighbors, and these themes bear on how emergency power is exercised. The tariff's economic merits are a prudential question that Scripture does not settle directly.
Debt and war Cloture and Tier 1 Procedural votes Scoring mechanics
Roll
Recorded votes
Roll 598 · October 29, 2025, 05:18 PM · On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 77 · Joint Resolution Passed (50-46)
Yea
- ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA
- BALDWIN, TAMMY
- BENNET, MICHAEL F.
- BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
- BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
- BOOKER, CORY A.
- CANTWELL, MARIA
- COLLINS, SUSAN M.
- COONS, CHRISTOPHER A.
- CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
- DUCKWORTH, L. TAMMY
- DURBIN, RICHARD J.
- FETTERMAN, JOHN KARL
- 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.
- MCCONNELL, MITCH
- MERKLEY, JEFFREY ALAN
- MURKOWSKI, LISA
- MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER S
- MURRAY, PATTY
- OSSOFF, T. JONATHAN
- PADILLA, ALEX
- PAUL, RAND
- 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.
Nay
- BANKS, JAMES E. HON.
- BARRASSO, JOHN A
- BLACKBURN, MARSHA MRS.
- 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
- CRUZ, RAFAEL EDWARD TED
- 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
- JOHNSON, RON HAROLD MR.
- JUSTICE, JAMES CONLEY II
- LANKFORD, JAMES PAUL
- LEE, MIKE
- LUMMIS, CYNTHIA MARIE MRS.
- MARSHALL, ROGER W
- MCCORMICK, DAVE
- MOODY, ASHLEY
- MORAN, JERRY
- MORENO, BERNIE
- MULLIN, MARKWAYNE
- RICKETTS, PETE
- RISCH, JAMES E MR.
- ROUNDS, MIKE
- SCHMITT, ERIC
- SCOTT, RICK SEN
- SCOTT, TIMOTHY E.
- SHEEHY, TIM
- SULLIVAN, DAN
- THUNE, JOHN R.
- TILLIS, THOM R SEN
- TUBERVILLE, THOMAS H
- YOUNG, TODD CHRISTOPHER