# 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".

## 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.

## Recorded votes

Roll 621: On the Motion to Proceed S.J.Res. 89. Yea 51 · Nay 47 · Other 2.

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