YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyWorkers & JobsCivil LibertiesCorporate BenefitsEnvironmentTransparency & AccountabilityTargeted & Unrelated ProvisionsPays Congress's own bills for 2026 — freezes lawmaker pay and bans Chinese-made cars and phone gear.
Your Money
The Library of Congress serves blind and print-disabled readers. The bill sets aside $650,000 so those readers get newspapers free.
Workers & Jobs
The bill puts $20.6 million toward paying interns in House offices. Each office could spend up to $46,800 of it in 2026. That figure replaces the cap in current law.
Capitol Police salaries get $687 million. Of that, $15 million is set aside for tuition help, hiring bonuses, and pay to keep officers on the job.
Federal law gives Members of Congress a yearly raise for rising prices. The bill blocks that raise for the year ending September 30, 2026.
The rule covers the Capitol Police top lawyer, top administrator, deputy chiefs, and assistant chiefs. Each would report to the police chief. The chief and the Capitol Police Board could remove them.
Civil Liberties
A worker with a permit under the DACA program could be paid from these funds. Their immigration status could not stand in the way.
No money in this bill, or in past spending laws, could be used to punish a person for that belief. Barred steps include denying grants, contracts, tax breaks, or licenses. Denying use of federal property is also barred.
No money here could pay for training that pushes the idea that one race or sex is better than another. The ban also covers training that ties a person's worth to race or sex.
Corporate Benefits
House offices could not buy computers, printers, or video gear from firms on U.S. lists of Chinese military or forced-labor firms. A second rule bars Huawei, ZTE, and Hikvision gear. By 2027 it also reaches contractors that use it.
No money could buy or lease cars from Chinese-owned makers. BYD, Geely, and CATL are named in the bill. Capitol Police and the Architect of the Capitol also could not buy Chinese-made drones. The one exception is national security work.
Environment
A 1992 energy law made the House buy some vehicles that run on other fuels. The bill takes the House out of that rule for 2026 and later years.
Transparency & Accountability
The Congressional Budget Office gets $72 million. At least $500,000 must go toward making its cost estimates clearer. It must also share its models, guesses about the economy, and data with the public.
The Architect of the Capitol could not pay bonus money to contractors that are late or over budget. It could still pay if the delay came from a surprise, a change it ordered, or a small slip.
Office allowances would be good only for 2026. What is left would go to the Treasury to cut the deficit. If there is no deficit, it would pay down the debt.
The Government Accountability Office can sue to force out money the White House will not spend. Under the bill it could not spend its funds on such a suit. Both chambers would first have to vote yes.
The Government Accountability Office often starts reviews on its own. The bill would make it tell the spending panels first. It would also have to say why the work should go ahead.
Ethics law limits what a Member can earn from a practice built on trust. The bill says treating a medical or dental patient does not count. It starts with pay earned in 2026.
Targeted & Unrelated Provisions
The bill's first lines pay $174,000 each to the family of Representatives Sylvester Turner, Raul Grijalva, and Gerald Connolly. All three died in office. The payments total $522,000.
More about this bill
Most households would see no change from this bill. It pays for Congress's own operations through September 30, 2026. The House would get about $1.98 billion for salaries and expenses. Members' office budgets would get $850 million. Capitol Police salaries would get $687 million. The Library of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) would share hundreds of millions more. The bill also carries rules that reach past spending. It would bar money for diversity, equity, and inclusion training that promotes race- or sex-based superiority ideas. It would bar federal penalties against people who act on a belief that marriage joins one man and one woman. It would let offices pay staff who hold work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It would block buying Chinese-linked computers, phone systems, drones, and cars. Some of these rules would last past 2026. Several changes touch Congress's watchdogs. The GAO could not sue to force the release of withheld funds unless both chambers vote to allow it. The GAO would also have to tell spending panels before starting work Congress did not ask for. The CBO would spend at least $500,000 to make its cost estimates and data more public. Members of Congress would get no cost-of-living raise in 2026. Unspent office money would go to the Treasury to cut the deficit. The bill sets aside $650,000 for free newspapers for blind and print-disabled readers.
Congressional Summary
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026 This bill provides FY2026 appropriations for the legislative branch, including the House of Representatives and joint items such as the Joint Economic Committee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Office of the Attending Physician, and the Office of Congressional Accessibility Services. In addition, the bill provides FY2026 appropriations for the Capitol Police; the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights; the Congressional Budget Office; the Architect of the Capitol; the Library of Congress, including the Congressional Research Service and the Copyright Office; the Government Publishing Office; the Government Accountability Office; the Congressional Office for International Leadership Fund; and the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and Development. (Pursuant to the longstanding practice of each chamber of Congress determining its own requirements, funds for the Senate are not included in the House bill.) The bill also sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this bill.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-06-30
- Date Added
- 2026-06-19
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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