YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyWorkers & JobsCorporate BenefitsTransparency & AccountabilityTargeted & Unrelated ProvisionsPays for Congress itself in 2027 (~$5.5 billion) — no pay raise for lawmakers, who would also pick the Librarian of Congress.
Your Money
The Library of Congress runs a free reading service for people who are blind or print disabled. $650,000 of its budget would pay for newspapers, at no cost to the reader.
Workers & Jobs
Members of Congress get a cost-of-living raise each year unless Congress blocks it. This would block that raise for the budget year ending September 30, 2027.
Corporate Benefits
Companies working on Capitol buildings could not collect award or bonus payments while behind schedule or over budget. The Architect of the Capitol could still pay them if the delay was outside the company's control.
Transparency & Accountability
House members share $900 million in allowances to run their offices. Whatever is left after December 31, 2028 would go to the Treasury to cut the deficit or the debt.
Members can lease a car with their office allowance. That payment could be no more than $1,000 a month per vehicle. Mobile district offices do not count.
A Member facing a publicly disclosed House Ethics Committee review could not take the required workplace training online. It would have to be done in person, starting January 3, 2027.
The Congressional Budget Office prices out what bills would cost. It would have to spend at least $500,000 opening its models, data, and assumptions to Members, their staff, and the public.
Congress orders agencies to write hundreds of reports each year. The Government Publishing Office could use its $80 million publishing budget to post them on the free public website a 2022 law requires.
By law, the Government Accountability Office can sue when a President refuses to spend money Congress approved. It could not use these funds for such a suit unless both chambers passed a resolution first.
Targeted & Unrelated Provisions
The President now picks the Librarian of Congress and the head of the Government Publishing Office, with Senate approval. A panel of 12 senior lawmakers from both parties would choose and remove them instead, judging fitness rather than party.
The bill would pay $174,000 to Alfredia Scott, widow of the late Representative David A. Scott of Georgia. It appears under a heading for payments to widows and heirs of deceased members of Congress.
More about this bill
Most people would see no direct change from this spending plan. It pays for Congress itself and the offices that serve it. The total is about $5.5 billion for the budget year ending September 30, 2027. The House would get $2.1 billion to run offices and pay staff. The Capitol Police would get $908 million. The Library of Congress and its parts would get $923 million. The Government Accountability Office, the audit arm of Congress, would get $612 million. Senate funding is not included, because each chamber decides its own. Lawmakers would get no automatic cost-of-living raise in 2027. Money left in Members' office accounts after December 31, 2028 would go to the Treasury to pay down debt. A leased car for a Member could cost no more than $1,000 a month. From January 3, 2027, a Member under an open, public ethics review would have to take workplace training in person. Two items reach the public. $650,000 would pay for free newspapers for blind and print-disabled readers. The Congressional Budget Office, which prices out bills, would spend at least $500,000 opening its models and data to the public. One section would change who picks two top officials. The President now names the Librarian of Congress and the head of the Government Publishing Office. A panel of 12 senior lawmakers from both parties would pick them instead. The same panel could remove them. It would judge fitness for the job, not party. Another section would bar the audit arm from suing to force the release of funds a President holds back. It could sue only if both chambers pass a resolution first. House offices also could not buy computers, printers, or video gear from listed Chinese firms. The Capitol Police could not buy Chinese-made drones, except for national security work. A one-time $174,000 payment would go to the widow of the late Representative David A. Scott of Georgia.
Congressional Summary
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2027 This bill provides FY2027 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 FY2027 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.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Reported to House
- Action Date
- 2026-05-22
- Date Added
- 2026-06-19
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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