Congressional Disapproval of DOE Energy Conservation Rule for Walk‑In Coolers and Freezers and the DETERRENT Act

H. Res. 242 · H.R. 1048, H.J. Res. 24

This rule currently governs H.R. 1048, H.J. Res. 24.

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Overview

Floor outcome, , and debate structure.

Floor adoption

214-207

Floor vote date

Mar 25, 2025

h76-1-119

7-3

215-208

one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees.

Committee motion

Motion by Mr. Griffith to report the rule. Adopted: 7-3

Who Ran The Debate?

The and the original source documents.

Measures Governed

The bills and resolutions linked to this special rule entry.

H.R. 1048

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DETERRENT Act

H.J. Res. 24

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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers".

Rule Instructions

Numbered parsed from the source rule text.

No.	Provision text
3	Provides that the joint resolution shall be considered as read.
4	Waives all points of order against provisions in the joint resolution.
5	Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees.
6	Provides one motion to recommit.

Rules Committee Vote

Recorded votes on the .

Member	Vote	Party bloc
Mr. McGovern	nay	Minority
Ms. Scanlon	nay	Minority

Amendment	Sponsor	Summary
7	Tlaib (MI)	Amends the definition of "Foreign Country Of Concern" to include any country that is defending a case before the International Court of Justice relating to an alleged violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 or their Additional Protocols or the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; and to include any country the government of which includes officials that have outstanding arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court.
9	Gillen (NY)	Requires an institution to disclose any request or demand from a foreign government to boycott a U.S. ally, and to certify that the institution has not complied with such a request.
10	Gillen (NY)	Requires an institution to disclose any request from a foreign government to influence or make changes to its investment portfolio.
11	Gillen (NY), Ogles (TN)	Requires a report to Congress on Iran’s influence on anti-Israel campus protests since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.
12	Houlahan (PA), Hayes (CT)	None of this shall go into effect if the Department of Education is dismantled or any funds made available by previous Appropriations Acts to the Department of Education are revoked or altered to reduce the authority and function of the Department of Education.
13	Self (TX)	Amends the threshold value at which gifts must be reported from $50,000 to $1.
14	Lee (PA)	Requires a study to determine the impact on research collaborations and campus experience for students and faculty.
15	Tlaib (MI)	Amends the definition of "Investment of Concern" to include any entity that the Secretary of State determines consistently, knowingly, and directly facilitates and enables state violence and repression, war and occupation, or severe violations of international law and human rights.
16	Gottheimer (NJ)	Adds anywhere it says a “foreign country of concern” to insert immediately thereafter any country where an Iranian-backed proxy plays a role in the government.
17	Gottheimer (NJ)	Requires universities to disclose any foreign gifts or contracts that support faculty or staff who have publicly endorsed a statement or petition in favor of an academic boycott of Israel.
18	Williams (GA)	Revises the definition of contract to exclude affiliations, agreements, or similar transactions related to the cultural or academic exchange programs carried out by the Bureau from the 2 definitions of “contract” found in the bill. The first amendment is to the definition found in section 117 (which is also incorporated by reference in section 117A). The second amendment is to the definition found in section 117B.
19	Webster (FL)	Late Adds Special Administrative Regions of China, including Hong Kong and Macau to the definition of "foreign country of concern."
20	Williams (GA)	Late Revises the calculation of fees for non compliance such that the “total amount of Federal funding received by the institution under this Act” does not include funds received under title IV. The second instruction strikes from the bill the requirement that institutions comply with the various provisions of this Act in order to be eligible to participate in programs under title IV.
21	Scott (VA)	SUBSTITUTE Late Amends Section 117 to streamline foreign gift and contract reporting, aligns reporting with other federal research security compliance requirements, establishes common-sense sanctions for noncompliance and requires the Secretary of Education to conduct negotiated rulemaking to receive stakeholder feedback.
22	Salinas (OR)	Late Prevents the act from taking effect until all recently terminated employees are re-instated.
23	Adams (NC)	Late Amends the definition of an Outside Person to any employees or contractors (including volunteers and special government employees) of the U.S. DOGE Service, or (3) any other special government employee or government employee detailed to the Department of Education.
24	Titus (NV)	Late Nullifies the Executive Order to dismantle the Department of Education.
25	Goldman (NY)	Late Lowers threshold for disclosure to $0 for all "nonexempt foreign countries", including foreign countries of concern and other non-democracies, and strikes the section prohibiting gifts and contracts from certain countries.
1	Ogles (TN), Webster (FL)	Revised Includes any special administrative region or other territory within one of the covered nations referenced in the bill within the bill's definition of a "foreign country of concern."
2	Ogles (TN)	Amends the definition of 'foreign entity of concern' to include Chinese military companies identified on the list required by section 1260H of the FY2021 NDAA (colloquially referred to as the "Section 1260H list").
3	Ogles (TN)	Adds South Africa to the definition of “foreign country of concern".
4	Ogles (TN)	Adds Qatar to the definition of “foreign country of concern".
5	Ogles (TN)	Adds the "Palestinian territories" to the definition of “foreign country of concern".
6	Crockett (TX)	Adds "a foreign entity that knowingly and willfully engaged in malicious activities, including online disinformation campaigns and propaganda, for the purpose of interfering with Federal, State, or local elections in the United States" to the definition of “foreign country of concern".
8	Houlahan (PA)	Requires the Department of Education to carry out negotiated rulemaking on Sec. 117, allowing public input on the section's implementation.