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 "Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment".

Where it stands

1. Introduced Done · Oct 8, 2025
2. Committee Done · Oct 8, 2025
3. Passed Senate Not yet
4. Passed House Not yet
5. President Not yet
6. Law Not yet

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What it changes

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Who it affects

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What it costs

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Where it stands

Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8395) (Nov 20, 2025)

What happens next

A committee would usually act on it before the full Senate votes.

Official summary

This joint resolution nullifies the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on November 20, 2024, which amended the 2015 resource management plan (RMP) for the Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming to make no federal coal available for future leasing. Thus, the joint resolution requires the BLM to follow the 2015 RMP as it was before it was amended in 2024 and make coal available for leasing. By way of background, the BLM developed the amendment to the plan in response to Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Bureau of Land Management. In that case, the court held that the BLM must evaluate the climate impacts of federal coal leasing in the Buffalo Field Office and include alternatives to limit or stop coal leasing in the evaluation in order to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act. After conducting the evaluation, the BLM amended the RMP and made BLM-managed coal resources in the Buffalo Field Office planning area unavailable for future leasing.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in Senate version), via Congress.gov. These are proposed provisions, not enacted law.

Recorded votes

1. SENATEProceduralNov 19, 2025 · roll call 621

   On the Motion to Proceed: Motion to Proceed Agreed to (51–47)

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   Votes by party

   How each party voted on roll call 621

   Party	Yes	No	Present	Did not vote	Share voting Yes
   Democratic	0	45	0	0
   Republican	51	0	0	2
   Independent	0	2	0	0

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   Map: how each state voted

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Legislative history

1. Nov 20, 2025Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8395)
2. Nov 19, 2025Measure laid before Senate by motion.
3. Nov 19, 2025Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Record Vote Number: 621.
4. Nov 18, 2025Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 270.
5. Nov 18, 2025Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).
6. Nov 18, 2025Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).
7. Oct 8, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
8. Oct 8, 2025Introduced in Senate