S.J.Res. 103: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Veterans Affairs relating to "Reproductive Health Services".

S.J.Res. 103 is a Congressional Review Act resolution. The Congressional Review Act lets Congress kill a recently issued federal rule with a single up-or-down vote instead of writing new legislation. The entire text here is one sentence: Congress disapproves the VA's "Reproductive Health Services" rule, published December 31, 2025, and the rule "shall have no force or effect."

The Congressional Review Act gives these resolutions a privileged path in the Senate. Debate is limited, it cannot be filibustered, and it passes on a simple majority. Sen. Blumenthal's group used another part of that law — a discharge petition — to pull the resolution out of the Veterans' Affairs Committee and onto the Senate calendar without a committee vote.

All 38 cosponsors are Democrats or independents. They say the VA's December rule scaled back reproductive care that veterans had been getting, and the resolution is their move to reverse it. The bill text itself does not describe what the rule changed; it only names the rule and disapproves it.

Passing the Senate is only the first step. The resolution still has to clear the House and be signed by the president. A president rarely signs a measure undoing a rule his own administration just issued, so absent that signature the rule stays in place. That makes this, in practice, a forced floor vote that puts every senator on record. If it does become law, the Congressional Review Act also bars the VA from issuing a substantially similar rule later unless Congress specifically authorizes one.