Sponsor
Erin Houchin
Representative · R-IN
Representative · R-IN
This resolution expedites floor consideration of an energy-rule bill and a full-year consolidated appropriations package to avoid delays and funding gaps, but it does so by curtailing debate, waiving procedural safeguards, and reducing transparency—raising the risk of less-scrutinized policy changes or spending.
Federal employees, taxpayers, and state/local governments: speeds consideration of the FY2026 consolidated appropriations bill so funding can be enacted sooner, reducing the risk of government funding gaps or lapses.
Manufactured-housing stakeholders, federal employees, and taxpayers: enables prompt floor consideration and a quicker vote on H.R.5184 (energy-efficiency rules for manufactured housing), shortening the time to decide regulatory changes.
Members of the House of Representatives: preserves a one-hour debate and a motion to recommit, maintaining a minimal formal opportunity for last-minute amendment or minority input.
Taxpayers, state and local governments, and House members: waiving points of order and severely limiting debate reduces legislative scrutiny and minority input, increasing the chance major measures pass without thorough consideration.
Taxpayers and state/local governments: rapid, curtailed procedures for a consolidated appropriations bill increase the risk that policy riders or unvetted spending are enacted, producing budgetary or programmatic consequences.
The public and affected jurisdictions: expedited passage with limited debate reduces transparency and public scrutiny of a large spending bill, making it harder for outside stakeholders to review and respond.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Speeds House floor consideration and final passage for a bill blocking DOE manufactured‑housing efficiency enforcement and for the FY2026 consolidated appropriations bill, and sets debate, voting, and engrossment rules.
Allows the House to fast-track floor consideration and final passage for two specific measures: one that would block the Department of Energy from enforcing certain energy-efficiency standards for manufactured housing, and the consolidated fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill. It sets time limits on debate, waives points of order, orders up final passage votes, defines a sequence of votes on retained divisions of the appropriations text, directs corrections to the engrossed bill if portions are omitted, and permits the Appropriations Committee chair to insert explanatory material into the Congressional Record by January 9, 2026.
Introduced January 7, 2026 by Erin Houchin · Last progress January 7, 2026