Sponsor
Austin Scott
Representative · R-GA
Representative · R-GA
This package trades faster, more predictable House floor action and streamlined amendment management (which can speed appropriations and reauthorizations) for reduced rank-and-file amendment opportunities, concentrated leadership control, and weaker procedural safeguards and transparency.
Taxpayers, federal employees, and beneficiaries (e.g., people with disabilities) will see faster and more predictable House floor consideration—waived procedural hurdles and explicit debate time limits speed enactment of reauthorizations and appropriations.
Committee chairs and ranking members (and their designees) can bundle, offer en bloc, or manage multiple printed amendments and pro forma amendments, allowing leadership to package measures efficiently and reduce repetitive votes.
Structured, time-limited debate (including five-minute amendment rules and set minute allocations) provides scheduling predictability for the House floor and can help produce timely funding decisions (important for appropriations and national security bills).
Rank-and-file House members (and therefore their constituents) lose opportunities to offer individual or substitute amendments, reducing their ability to shape legislation and represent local or minority interests.
Control over debate timing and amendment packaging is concentrated in committee leadership, which can marginalize minority or dissenting viewpoints and centralize influence over bill content.
Waiving points of order and deeming bills read reduces procedural safeguards and transparency, increasing the risk that provisions bypass committee review, budget enforcement rules, or public scrutiny.
Based on analysis of 13 sections of legislative text.
Sets House floor rules for consideration, debate limits, amendment restrictions, and clerical engrossment actions for multiple pending bills including an appropriations measure.
Official title: Providing for 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.
Introduced June 30, 2026 by Austin Scott · Last progress June 30, 2026
Sets special House floor procedures for considering several pending measures, including rules for amendment, debate time, and motions to recommit for H.R. 8595 (national security/appropriations), H.R. 8800, H.R. 8884 (Social Security disability demo reauthorization), and a commemorative resolution. It also directs technical clerical actions (engrossment edits), lays another resolution on the table, and authorizes committee chairs to offer bundled and pro forma amendments during consideration. The resolution waives many points of order, prescribes which amendments may be offered (printed amendments, en bloc packages, pro forma amendments), limits debate lengths, permits a single motion to recommit, and establishes processes for reporting bills from the Committee and moving directly to final passage votes under the previous question procedure.
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