[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 88 (Tuesday, May 21, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3800]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  PROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5, 
 UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
    RELATING TO ``ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAM: ENERGY CONSERVATION 
                   STANDARDS FOR CONSUMER FURNACES''

  Mr. CRUZ. Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 399, S.J. 
Res. 58.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). Under the previous order, the 
motion to proceed is agreed to.
  The motion was agreed to.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the joint resolution.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 58) providing for 
     congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United 
     States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of 
     Energy relating to ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy 
     Conservation Standards for Consumer Furnaces''.


                          Vote on S.J. Res. 58

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the joint 
resolution is considered read the third time.
  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading 
and was read the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The joint resolution having been read the 
third time, the question is, Shall the joint resolution pass?
  Mr. CRUZ. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Menendez) and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Tester) are necessarily 
absent.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), 
and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Tillis).
  Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Tillis) would have voted ``yea.''
  The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 176 Leg.]

                                YEAS--50

     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Braun
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Capito
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sinema
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tuberville
     Vance
     Wicker
     Young

                                NAYS--45

     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Stabenow
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Menendez
     Tester
     Tillis
  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 58) was passed as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 58

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress 
     disapproves the rule submitted by the Department of Energy 
     relating to ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy 
     Conservation Standards for Consumer Furnaces'' (88 Fed. Reg. 
     87502 (December 18, 2023)), and such rule shall have no force 
     or effect.

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