[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 181 (Thursday, October 30, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S7842]
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 BUREAU OF LAND 
     MANAGEMENT RELATING TO ``NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE IN ALASKA 
             INTEGRATED ACTIVITY PLAN RECORD OF DECISION''

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume consideration of S.J. Res. 80, which the clerk will report.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A joint resolution (S.J. Res. 80) 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 ``National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska 
     Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision''.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, all time is expired.
  The clerk will read the title of the joint resolution for the third 
time.
  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading 
and was read a third time.


                          Vote on S.J. Res. 80

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The joint resolution having been read the 
third time, the question is, Shall the joint resolution pass?
  Mrs. MURRAY. 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 bill clerk called the roll.
  Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt) and the Senator from Mississippi 
(Mr. Wicker).
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) is 
necessarily absent:
  The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 45, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 599 Leg.]

                                YEAS--52

     Banks
     Barrasso
     Blackburn
     Boozman
     Britt
     Budd
     Capito
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Cornyn
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Curtis
     Daines
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hawley
     Hoeven
     Husted
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Justice
     Kennedy
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Marshall
     McConnell
     McCormick
     Moody
     Moran
     Moreno
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Paul
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Rounds
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sheehy
     Sullivan
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Young

                                NAYS--45

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Gillibrand
     Hassan
     Heinrich
     Hickenlooper
     Hirono
     Kaine
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Klobuchar
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Murray
     Ossoff
     Padilla
     Peters
     Reed
     Rosen
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Schiff
     Schumer
     Shaheen
     Slotkin
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warner
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch
     Whitehouse
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Gallego
     Schmitt
     Wicker
  The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 80) was passed, as follows:

                              S.J. Res. 80

       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 Bureau of Land 
     Management relating to ``National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska 
     Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision'' (issued April 
     25, 2022, as a record of decision, and a letter of opinion 
     from the Government Accountability Office dated July 24, 
     2025, printed in the Congressional Record on July 28, 2025, 
     on pages S4768-S4770, concluding that such record of decision 
     is a rule under the Congressional Review Act), and such rule 
     shall have no force or effect.

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