Motion to Proceed Agreed to in the Senate on December 3, 2025 · 48 Yea, 47 Nay, 4 Not Voting
Question: On the Motion to Proceed S.J.Res. 91
In plain English: Congress is voting to block a Bureau of Land Management rule that would have made about 1.2 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's Coastal Plain unavailable for oil and gas leasing. This action would instead reinstate a previous rule that made all 1.6 million acres available, though a minimum of 400,000 acres would still be offered for lease.
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 …