Motion to Proceed Agreed to in the Senate on November 19, 2025 · 50 Yea, 47 Nay, 2 Not Voting
Question: On the Motion to Proceed S.J.Res. 89
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 Organi…