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".

Where it stands

1. Introduced Done · Oct 28, 2025
2. Committee Done · Oct 28, 2025
3. Passed Senate Not yet
4. Passed House Not yet
5. President Not yet
6. Law Not yet

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Key points

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. (Dec 4, 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), 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.

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

Recorded votes

1. SENATEProceduralDec 3, 2025 · roll call 630

   On the Motion to Proceed: Motion to Proceed Agreed to (49–47)

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   Votes by party

   How each party voted on roll call 630

   Party	Yes	No	Present	Did not vote	Share voting Yes
   Democratic	0	44	0	1
   Republican	49	1	0	3
   Independent	0	2	0	0

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   Map: how each state voted

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Legislative history

1. Dec 4, 2025Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.
2. Dec 3, 2025Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S8473)
3. Dec 3, 2025Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 49 - 47. Record Vote Number: 630.
4. Dec 2, 2025Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 280.
5. Dec 2, 2025Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).
6. Dec 2, 2025Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged, by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).
7. Oct 28, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
8. Oct 28, 2025Introduced in Senate