HRES-1423 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 139) to make daylight savings time permanent, 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. 9237) to amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, and other Federal laws, to improve benefits for veterans and the administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1181) to prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from general-merchandise retailer or sporting-goods retailer, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.

YourVoice.Now Summary

Transparency & AccountabilityTargeted & Unrelated Provisions

No change for you — it set the House floor rules for four bills, from clocks to veterans.

Transparency & Accountability

Objections to these four bills — House rules waived

A member can normally raise a point of order to stop a bill that breaks House rules. This resolution set those objections aside for all four bills.

Members' power to change these bills — most amendments blocked

Three of the four bills got no amendment process at all. On the spending bill, only amendments the Rules Committee picked ahead of time could be offered.

Separate votes on two bill changes — added automatically instead

A change to the veterans bill and a rewrite of the firearms card-code bill counted as adopted once this resolution took effect. Neither got a floor vote of its own.

Targeted & Unrelated Provisions

Another Senate bill attached to spending bill

The Clerk was told to add the text of a Senate bill, S. 1383, to the end of the spending bill. The two then move to the Senate as one bill.

More about this bill

Nothing in your daily life changes because of this resolution. It is a House floor rule. It set the terms for debate on four separate bills in July 2026. Those four bills are the ones that could reach you. One would make daylight saving time permanent. One would fund national security and the State Department through September 2027. One would change veterans' benefits and how the VA runs. The last would stop card networks from giving gun shops their own store code. The rule gave each bill one hour of debate, split evenly between the two parties. It blocked amendments to three of the bills. On the spending bill, only amendments the Rules Committee picked ahead of time could be offered. It also set aside the House rules that members use to object. A final section told the Clerk to attach a separate Senate bill to the end of the spending bill.

Congressional Summary

This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 139) to make daylight savings time permanent, 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. 9237) to amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, and other Federal laws, to improve benefits for veterans and the administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1181) to prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from general-merchandise retailer or sporting-goods retailer, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.

Details

Congress: 119th
Chamber: House
Status: summarized
Action: Reported to House
Action Date: 2026-07-13
Date Added: 2026-07-16
Source: Congress.gov →

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