LEGISLATIVE CALLS TO ACTION -- Week of Nov 5, 2025

Bills to Keep An Eye On

Passed the Senate, House next

S.J.Res. 81: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Brazil.

The Senate voted to terminate the 50 percent tariffs that President Trump has imposed on Brazil, with a handful of Republicans crossing party lines to help push through a measure rejecting the emergency declaration used to justify them.

While the resolution faces long odds in the House, where Republicans have taken extraordinary steps to make it more difficult to bring up such measures, the vote signaled bipartisan frustration with the president’s tariffs on most goods from Brazil, a country with which the United States has a multibillion-dollar trade surplus. (NYT)

Both Indiana senators voted nay. View the vote.

S.J.Res. 77: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada.

Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 46. Both Indiana senators voted nay. View the vote.

S.J.Res. 88: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.

Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Both Indiana senators voted nay. View the vote.

S.J.Res. 80: 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 “National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision”. 

The rule, established in 2022, restricted oil and gas development in millions of acres of the reserve

Both Indiana senators voted yea. View the vote.

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Passed the Senate, House next

S.J.Res. 81: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Brazil.

The Senate voted to terminate the 50 percent tariffs that President Trump has imposed on Brazil, with a handful of Republicans crossing party lines to help push through a measure rejecting the emergency declaration used to justify them.

While the resolution faces long odds in the House, where Republicans have taken extraordinary steps to make it more difficult to bring up such measures, the vote signaled bipartisan frustration with the president’s tariffs on most goods from Brazil, a country with which the United States has a multibillion-dollar trade surplus. (NYT)

Both Indiana senators voted nay. View the vote.

S.J.Res. 77: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada.

Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 50 - 46. Both Indiana senators voted nay. View the vote.

S.J.Res. 88: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.

Passed Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 47. Both Indiana senators voted nay. View the vote.

S.J.Res. 80: 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 “National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision”. 

The rule, established in 2022, restricted oil and gas development in millions of acres of the reserve.

Both Indiana senators voted yea. View the vote.