This Week in CongressSep 15th - 21st

A resolution designating September 25, 2025, as "National Lobster Day".

Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6637; text: CR S6652)

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 "Extension of Deadlines in Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review Final Rule".

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by petition, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c).

A resolution condemning the tragic act of violence on September 10, 2025, in Evergreen, Colorado, recognizing the victims, survivors, and responders, and expressing condolences and support to their families and their communities.

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S6653)

A resolution designating September 2025 as "National Voting Rights Month".

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S6651)

A resolution condemning the extreme anti-vaccine policies of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., strongly opposing the policies of the State of Florida that roll back immunization requirements, and expressing the sense of the Senate that vaccines are critical to protecting public health, eliminating preventable illness and death, and reducing hospitalizations and severity of illness, work best when adopted at a high level within each community, and must be made available to the public.

Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S6650)