YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityTargeted & Unrelated ProvisionsA House rulebook for four floor votes, not a law change — and it failed on the floor.
Transparency & Accountability
New versions of the defense and disability bills would replace the committee text on their own. Members would vote on the rule, not on the swap itself.
Only amendments printed in the Rules Committee report could be offered, in a set order, by named members. The disability bill and the anniversary resolution would allow none at all.
Targeted & Unrelated Provisions
The Clerk would add the full text of S. 1383, already passed by the House, to the end of the defense bill. The two would then move forward as one bill, with no separate vote on joining them.
House rules normally let a member object to policy language or unapproved spending in a funding bill. This rule would set those objections aside for the State Department funding bill, so such items stay in.
More about this bill
Most people would see no change in daily life. This resolution is a House rulebook, not a change to any law. It would set debate time, amendment limits, and voting order for four measures. Those are the 2027 defense bill, a State Department funding bill, a Social Security disability work bill, and a tax-cut anniversary resolution. Two parts go beyond scheduling. For the funding bill, it would bar objections that normally keep policy add-ons and unapproved spending out of funding bills. It would also have the House Clerk attach a separate Senate bill, S. 1383, to the end of the defense bill. House records show the rule failed on the floor, so none of it took effect.
Congressional Summary
This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8595) making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8884) to amend title II of the Social Security Act to reauthorize demonstration authority for the disability insurance program; providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1383) commemorating the one-year anniversary of the enactment of the Working Families Tax Cuts; and for other purposes.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Reported to House
- Action Date
- 2026-06-30
- Date Added
- 2026-07-09
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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