[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 128 (Wednesday, August 5, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4468-S4469]
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 ENVIRONMENTAL 
   PROTECTION AGENCY RELATING TO ``MODIFICATION TO THE START OF THE 
  SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR PERFLUOROALKYL AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES 
  (PFAS) REPORTING AND RECORDKEEPING UNDER TSCA 8(A)(7)''--Motion to 
                                Proceed

  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 532, 
S.J. Res. 187.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.

[[Page S4469]]

  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 532, S.J. Res. 187, 
     providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of 
     title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the 
     Environmental Protection Agency relating to ``Modification to 
     the Start of the Submission Period for Perfluoroalkyl and 
     Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Reporting and Recordkeeping 
     Under TSCA 8(a)(7)''.


                             Vote on Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
proceed.
  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. 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. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and the Senator from Kentucky 
(Mr. McConnell).
  The result was announced--yeas 48, nays 50, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 222 Leg.]

                                YEAS--48

     Alsobrooks
     Baldwin
     Bennet
     Blumenthal
     Blunt Rochester
     Booker
     Cantwell
     Collins
     Coons
     Cortez Masto
     Duckworth
     Durbin
     Fetterman
     Gallego
     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

                                NAYS--50

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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Blackburn
     McConnell
       
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 48, 
the nays are 50. The motion is not agreed to.
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.

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