{"format":1,"id":"117-sjres-46","congress":117,"number":"S.J.Res. 46","kind":"joint_resolution","group":"bills","title":"A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to \"Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers\".","title_source":"Display Title","official_title":"A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to \"Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers\".","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to \"Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers\"."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to \"Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers\"."}],"outcome":"failed_senate","law_number":null,"introduced":"2022-04-28","chambers":{"house":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null},"senate":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2022-05-26","vote":{"id":"117-2022-s211","question":"On the Joint Resolution","title":"S.J.Res. 46","result":"Joint Resolution Defeated","yea":46,"nay":48,"present":0,"not_voting":6,"source":"https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00211.xml"}}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Motion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which S.J. Res. 46 failed of passage (Record Vote No. 211) entered in Senate.","date":"2022-05-26"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2022-04-28","stage":"Introduced in Senate","blocks":[{"k":"p","t":"This joint resolution nullifies the interim final rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security and published on March 29, 2022, concerning procedures for the consideration of asylum claims and other related issues. (Among other changes, the interim final rule requires an asylum seeker subject to expedited removal to be screened by an asylum officer for a credible fear of persecution or torture, rather than a credible fear of persecution, reasonable possibility of persecution, or reasonable possibility of torture.)"}],"words":84},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Disapproves, under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security rule on credible fear screening and consideration of asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT protection claims by asylum officers (87 Fed. Reg. 18078, March 29, 2022).","cites":[{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/46/text/pcs"}]},"core_areas":["Congressional disapproval of the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security asylum officer procedures rule"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"States that Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security titled \"Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers\".","cite":{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/46/text/pcs"}},{"text":"Identifies the disapproved rule as the one published at 87 Fed. Reg. 18078 on March 29, 2022.","cite":{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/46/text/pcs"}},{"text":"Provides that the disapproved rule shall have no force or effect.","cite":{"label":"Text","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/46/text/pcs"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Placed on Calendar Senate","date":"2022-05-25","rule":"nearest","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/46/text/pcs"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/46","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/46/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-sjres-46.png","v":"28bda435a427","alt":"Votes on Record. S.J.Res. 46, 117th Congress: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security relating to \"Procedures for Credible Fear Screening and Consideration of Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and CAT Protection Claims by Asylum Officers\". Senate: 46 Yea, 48 Nay. Outcome: Failed Senate, 26 May 2022."}}