AI-assisted analysis based on the official CRS summary. Source version: Dec 12, 2025. Analysis updated: Sep 15, 2026.
01 — The Text
What.
- The bill directs the Department of the Interior to reissue a November 2020 rule that removed gray wolves from the endangered and threatened species list in the lower 48 United States (excluding the Mexican wolf subspecies).
- A federal court vacated the 2020 rule in February 2022, causing gray wolves to regain their prior protected status.
- The bill prohibits judicial review of the reissued rule, preventing courts from challenging it.
- The bill passed the House on December 18, 2025, by a vote of 211–204.
- The bill was received in the Senate on December 18, 2025, and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
02 — The Stakes
So what?
- If enacted, the bill would restore a delisting rule that a court previously found invalid, circumventing the normal judicial review process.
- The prohibition on judicial review prevents legal challenges to the reissued rule, unlike standard regulatory procedures.
- The documented effects of wolf delisting are not described in the official summary; impacts on wolf populations, livestock, or ecosystems are not addressed in the summary.
- The bill's passage in the House does not guarantee Senate action or enactment.
03 — The Path
Now what?
- The bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on December 18, 2025.
- The House passed the bill on December 18, 2025, after rejecting a motion to recommit.
- No subsequent Senate action has been recorded in the provided data.
- The bill's fate in the Senate cannot be determined from available information.
Legislative History
Actions.
- Dec 18, 2025 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- Dec 18, 2025 — Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Dec 18, 2025 — On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 211 - 204 (Roll no. 360). (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR H6050)
- Dec 18, 2025 — Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 211 - 204 (Roll no. 360).
- Dec 18, 2025 — On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 204 - 213 (Roll no. 359).
- Dec 18, 2025 — Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6070-6072)
- Dec 18, 2025 — POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 845, the Chair put the question on motion to recommit and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Huffman demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
- Dec 18, 2025 — The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.