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 "Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision".

What this measure contains

This joint resolution nullifies the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), issued on December 9, 2024, and related to the record of decision (ROD) for the program that leases, develops, produces, and transports oil and gas in and from the Coastal Plain program area within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 2024 ROD that is being nullified by this resolution replaced the 2020 ROD that made all of the approximately 1.6 million acres of the program area available for oil and gas leasing. The 2024 ROD adopted Alternative D2 in the 2024 Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, which made approximately 1.2 million acres unavailable for leasing or exploration in order to protect and conserve resources and certain uses in these areas. However, the 2024 ROD requires the statutory minimum of 400,000 acres to be made available for oil and gas leasing in a specified lease sale, subject to certain stipulations and operating procedures. Under current law, those acres must be located in the areas with the highest potential for the discovery of hydrocarbons.

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• Placed on Calendar Senate · Official document ↗· Dec 2, 2025
• Introduced in Senate · Official document ↗· Oct 28, 2025

Legislative path

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1. Introduced in Senate
2. Placed on Calendar Senate

Companion measure: H.J.Res. 131. A companion follows its own path; its votes are not combined with this one.

Decision stages

1. Dec 3, 2025 · Senate

   Senate motion to proceed on Placed on Calendar Senate: Motion to Proceed Agreed to

   49 aye · 47 no · 4 not voting · Source roll call

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Aye yea or aye · No nay or no · Present · NV not voting · Changed reversed on advancing the measure

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Legislative history

1. Oct 28, 2025

   Introduced in Senate

2. Oct 28, 2025

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

3. Dec 2, 2025

   Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).

4. Dec 2, 2025

   Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 280.

5. Dec 3, 2025

   Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 49 - 47. Record Vote Number: 630.

6. Dec 3, 2025

   Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S8473)

7. Dec 4, 2025

   Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.

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