01 — The Text
What.
- Directs Interior Department to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list in the lower 48 states (except Mexican wolves).
- Restores a 2020 rule that a federal court blocked in 2022, which had delisted the gray wolf.
- Blocks courts from reviewing or challenging the delisting rule once reissued.
02 — The Stakes
So what?
- Livestock and ranching interests win: fewer legal obstacles to wolf management on private and public lands.
- Environmental groups and wolf conservation advocates lose: gray wolves lose federal protection they regained in 2022.
- States gain authority to set their own wolf hunting and management policies without federal endangered species limits.
03 — The Path
Now what?
- Passed House 211-204 on Dec. 18. Now in Senate Environment and Public Works Committee—faces Democratic opposition.
- Senate passage unlikely without Republican support; potential filibuster. Even if it passes, Biden administration likely to oppose.
- Contact your senators to voice support or opposition before committee vote.
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.