- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Floor speeches
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: August 5, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
PROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5,
UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE SUBMITTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY RELATING TO “MODIFICATION TO THE START OF THE
SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR PERFLUOROALKYL AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES
(PFAS) REPORTING AND RECORDKEEPING UNDER TSCA 8(A)(7)”—Motion to
Proceed
Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I move to proceed to Calendar No. 532, S.J. Res. 187.
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. 532, S.J. Res. 187,
providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of
title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the
Environmental Protection Agency relating to “Modification to
the Start of the Submission Period for Perfluoroalkyl and
Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Reporting and Recordkeeping
Under TSCA 8(a)(7)”.
Vote on Motion
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to proceed.
Mr. WHITEHOUSE. 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 Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell).
The result was announced—yeas 48, nays 50, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 222 Leg.
YEAS—48
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Collins
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—50
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Cassidy
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Paul
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Sullivan
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NOT VOTING—2
Blackburn
McConnell
The motion was rejected.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Moreno). On this vote, the yeas are 48, the nays are 50. The motion is not agreed to.
The motion was rejected.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority whip.