SJRES 10 — Congress 119
A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy.
Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/10
Congress.gov subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures; Alternative and renewable resources; Building construction; Coal; Energy storage, supplies, demand; Licensing and registrations; Mining; Oil and gas; Emergency Management
Issues impacted: Energy & Climate (taxonomy, high)
Official bill text (stored)
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119 SJ 10 IS: Terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy. U.S. Senate 2025-02-03 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. IIA 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES. 10 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 3, 2025 Mr. Kaine (for himself and Mr. Heinrich ) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources JOINT RESOLUTION Terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy. That the national emergency relating to energy declared on January 20, 2025, by the President in Executive Order 14156 (90 Fed. Reg. 8433) and pursuant to the National Emergencies Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. ), is terminated.
Plain-English summary
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So here’s the short version. This joint resolution would shut off a national emergency the President declared on energy on January 20, 2025.
That declaration came through Executive Order 14156 under the National Emergencies Act—the law that lets a president claim extra powers in a crisis. Congress can also vote to end one of those emergencies. This measure does exactly that in one clean line: the energy emergency is terminated.
If it became law, the special emergency powers tied to that order would stop. Everyday energy rules would apply again instead. The resolution doesn’t list every permit, fuel supply, mining step, or power-sector tool that might have been involved—it just flips the emergency off.
Who would notice depends on how those emergency powers were actually being used. Folks in oil and gas, coal, mining, renewables, building, or energy storage could feel it if the emergency had changed their day-to-day rules.
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| Issue | Yea advances | Nay advances | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy & Climate | Status quo / reject this change | Status quo / reject this change | Yea ends the Jan. 20, 2025 energy national emergency; Nay keeps that emergency in place. The resolution text does not detail EO 14156’s specific production or climate effects, so a narrower clean-vs-fossil pole is not assigned. |