S. 4072: A bill to prohibit the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce certain rules of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Bill · 118th Congress (2023–2024). Failed Senate, 18 Apr 2024. Introduced 23 Mar 2024.
Vote results
- Senate, 18 Apr 2024: Bill Defeated, 52 Yea, 46 Nay, 0 Present, 2 Not voting. The Senate’s roll call
- President: Not presented to the President.
How each member voted
Senate
Yea (52): Chuck Grassley (R-IA); Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Sherrod Brown (D-OH); Mike Crapo (R-ID); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Roger F. Wicker (R-MS); Susan M. Collins (R-ME); Jerry Moran (R-KS); John Thune (R-SD); Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV); John Boozman (R-AR); John Cornyn (R-TX); Lisa Murkowski (R-AK); Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Jon Tester (D-MT); John Barrasso (R-WY); Bill Cassidy (R-LA); James E. Risch (R-ID); Joe Manchin, III (I-WV); John Hoeven (R-ND); Ron Johnson (R-WI); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Marco Rubio (R-FL); Tim Scott (R-SC); Todd Young (R-IN); Tom Cotton (R-AR); Kevin Cramer (R-ND); Ted Cruz (R-TX); Steve Daines (R-MT); Deb Fischer (R-NE); Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY); Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ); Joni Ernst (R-IA); Mike Rounds (R-SD); Dan Sullivan (R-AK); Thom Tillis (R-NC); Ted Budd (R-NC); John Kennedy (R-LA); Roger Marshall (R-KS); Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS); Mike Braun (R-IN); Josh Hawley (R-MO); Mitt Romney (R-UT); Rick Scott (R-FL); Bill Hagerty (R-TN); Tommy Tuberville (R-AL); Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL); Eric Schmitt (R-MO); J.D. Vance (R-OH); Pete Ricketts (R-NE).
Nay (46): Edward J. Markey (D-MA); Charles E. Schumer (D-NY); Ron Wyden (D-OR); Richard J. Durbin (D-IL); Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD); Thomas R. Carper (D-DE); Jack Reed (D-RI); Bernard Sanders (I-VT); Patty Murray (D-WA); Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Maria Cantwell (D-WA); Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA); Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY); Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI); Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Christopher Murphy (D-CT); Peter Welch (D-VT); Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Martin Heinrich (D-NM); Ben Ray Luján (D-NM); Jeff Merkley (D-OR); Gary C. Peters (D-MI); Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Mark R. Warner (D-VA); Michael F. Bennet (D-CO); Christopher A. Coons (D-DE); Richard Blumenthal (D-CT); Brian Schatz (D-HI); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Tim Kaine (D-VA); Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME); Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Cory A. Booker (D-NJ); Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV); Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH); Jacky Rosen (D-NV); Tina Smith (D-MN); Mark Kelly (D-AZ); John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO); Jon Ossoff (D-GA); Alex Padilla (D-CA); John Fetterman (D-PA); Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Laphonza R. Butler (D-CA).
Not voting (2): Markwayne Mullin (R-OK); Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA).
Not in office (5): Adam B. Schiff (D-CA); Andy Kim (D-NJ); Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Ben Sasse (R-NE); George S. Helmy (D-NJ).
Summary
Main subject: Prohibits the use of fiscal year 2024 funds to implement, administer, or enforce the Environmental Protection Agency's "Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles" rules. Sec. 1
Its core areas: Funding prohibition on EPA multi-pollutant vehicle emissions standards for model years 2027 and later.
Unexpected Items: 1 provision
These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.
Delays or blocks a specific regulation (1)
- Sec. 1: Prohibiting the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce certain rules of the Environmental Protection Agency: Bars the use of fiscal year 2024 funds to implement, administer, or enforce a named EPA proposed rule, the final rule of the same title, or any substantially similar rule.
What it does
- Sec. 1: Bars the use of funds made available for fiscal year 2024 to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA proposed rule titled "Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles" (88 Fed. Reg. 29184 (May 5, 2023)).
- Sec. 1: Bars the use of those funds for the EPA final rule of the same title that was submitted for publication in the Federal Register on March 20, 2024.
- Sec. 1: Extends the funding bar to any substantially similar rule.
- Sec. 1: Applies the funding bar "notwithstanding any other provision of law."
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