Bill
S.J.Res. 89 (119th): A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment".
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to "Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment".
Summary
Recorded summary
This joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act would nullify the Bureau of Land Management's November 20, 2024 amendment to the 2015 resource management plan for the Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming. That amendment made all BLM-managed coal resources in the planning area unavailable for future federal coal leasing. It was issued to comply with a court ruling requiring the BLM to evaluate the climate impacts of coal leasing under the National Environmental Policy Act, including alternatives that limit or stop leasing. If enacted, the resolution would bar the BLM from issuing a substantially similar rule and would require it to follow the 2015 plan, which makes coal available for leasing.
Theological note: This measure raises issues of stewardship of creation, under which land and mineral resources are to be developed and kept responsibly for the common good (Genesis 2:15). It also bears on provision for workers and communities that depend on energy production, and on prudent care for the land and for neighbors who may bear environmental risks. These considerations call for prudential weighing rather than a direct moral verdict on the resolution.
Scoring
How this bill is scored
- Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
- Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: environmental_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: land_management. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
- Lane: oversight. 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 621: On the Motion to Proceed S.J.Res. 89. Vote type: cloture.
- Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The dispute is a prudential land-use and energy policy question. Disapproval would restore coal leasing, which carries real economic and energy-supply goods and is not itself a directly named moral evil. The rule it would nullify responds to climate and environmental review concerns, which are serious but contested in their weight. The bill therefore combines ordinary prudential goods with real concerns and does not warrant a hard moral verdict.
- Theological note: This measure raises issues of stewardship of creation, under which land and mineral resources are to be developed and kept responsibly for the common good (Genesis 2:15). It also bears on provision for workers and communities that depend on energy production, and on prudent care for the land and for neighbors who may bear environmental risks. These considerations call for prudential weighing rather than a direct moral verdict on the resolution.
Debt and war Cloture and Tier 1 Procedural votes Scoring mechanics
Roll
Recorded votes
Roll 621 · November 19, 2025, 02:23 PM · On the Motion to Proceed S.J.Res. 89 · Motion to Proceed Agreed to (51-47)
Yea
- 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.
- COLLINS, SUSAN 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
- HYDE-SMITH, CINDY
- JOHNSON, RON HAROLD MR.
- KENNEDY, JOHN NEELY
- LANKFORD, JAMES PAUL
- LEE, MIKE
- LUMMIS, CYNTHIA MARIE MRS.
- MARSHALL, ROGER W
- MCCONNELL, MITCH
- MCCORMICK, DAVE
- MOODY, ASHLEY
- MORAN, JERRY
- MORENO, BERNIE
- MULLIN, MARKWAYNE
- MURKOWSKI, LISA
- PAUL, RAND
- RICKETTS, PETE
- RISCH, JAMES E MR.
- ROUNDS, MIKE
- SCHMITT, ERIC
- SCOTT, RICK SEN
- SCOTT, TIMOTHY E.
- SHEEHY, TIM
- SULLIVAN, DAN
- THUNE, JOHN R.
- TUBERVILLE, THOMAS H
- WICKER, ROGER SEN.
- YOUNG, TODD CHRISTOPHER
Nay
- ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA
- BALDWIN, TAMMY
- BENNET, MICHAEL F.
- BLUMENTHAL, RICHARD
- BLUNT ROCHESTER, LISA
- BOOKER, CORY A.
- CANTWELL, MARIA
- COONS, CHRISTOPHER A.
- CORTEZ MASTO, CATHERINE
- DUCKWORTH, L. TAMMY
- DURBIN, RICHARD J.
- FETTERMAN, JOHN KARL
- GALLEGO, RUBEN
- 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.
- MERKLEY, JEFFREY ALAN
- MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER S
- MURRAY, PATTY
- OSSOFF, T. JONATHAN
- PADILLA, ALEX
- 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.