# 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.

## 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.

## Recorded votes

Roll 598: On the Joint Resolution S.J.Res. 77. Yea 50 · Nay 46 · Other 4.

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