PROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY RELATING TO "AIR PLAN DISAPPROVAL; COLORADO...

On 2026-04-29, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered a floor speech titled "PROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE ENV" in the Senate. The speech addressed the environment and also covered foreign policy. It referenced legislation including S2106, SJRES139.

PROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY RELATING TO "AIR PLAN DISAPPROVAL; COLORADO...

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 75 (Wednesday, April 29, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 29, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S2106] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] PROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY RELATING TO ``AIR PLAN DISAPPROVAL; COLORADO; REGIONAL HAZE PLAN FOR THE SECOND IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD''--Motion to Proceed Mr. BENNET. I move to proceed to Calendar No. 364, S.J. Res. 139. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 364, S.J. Res. 139, a joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ``Air Plan Disapproval; Colorado; Regional Haze Plan for the Second Implementation Period''. Vote on Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion. Mr. DURBIN. I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville). Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Alsobrooks) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 52, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 110 Leg.] YEAS--46 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Booker Cantwell Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Kim King Klobuchar Lujan Markey Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schiff Schumer Shaheen Slotkin Smith Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--52 Armstrong Banks Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Husted Hyde-Smith Johnson Justice Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moody Moran Moreno Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Rounds Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sheehy Sullivan Thune Tillis Wicker Young NOT VOTING--2 Alsobrooks Tuberville The motion was rejected. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). The Senator from Nevada. ____________________

Referenced legislation: SJRES139, SJRES139