SJRES 71 — 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/71
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)
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119 SJ 71 IS: Terminating the national emergency declared with respect to energy. U.S. Senate 2025-07-31 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. 71 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 31, 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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This one’s a short joint resolution—basically a bill both the House and Senate would need to pass—that ends a national energy emergency.
The president declared that emergency on January 20, 2025, in Executive Order 14156. He used the National Emergencies Act, the law that lets a president call an emergency and turn on special temporary powers. This resolution would simply turn that energy emergency off.
If it became law, those extra emergency tools tied to energy would stop. Folks who watch oil and gas, coal, mining, power supplies, licensing, or related rules might notice, because the special emergency setup would be gone.
That’s the whole measure. The text doesn’t spell out every power that would vanish, just that the emergency itself ends.
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| Issue | Yea advances | Nay advances | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy & Climate | Accelerate clean-energy transition | Expand domestic fossil and all-of-the-above production | Yea ends the Jan 2025 energy national emergency and its special authorities; Nay keeps that emergency framework, which the bill’s energy subjects (oil and gas, coal, mining, licensing, supply) tie to production- and permitting-style tools. |