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Austin Scott
Representative · R-GA
Representative · R-GA
This rule speeds and structures House floor action—helping advance appropriations and select bills quickly—but does so by concentrating control in leadership and narrowing debate and amendment opportunities, trading broader member input and transparency for procedural efficiency.
Taxpayers and federal employees: Faster consideration and potential quicker enactment of appropriations and other covered bills (e.g., FY2027 national security/State Department appropriations, H.R. 8595, disability demonstration reauthorization) because procedural hurdles are waived, debate is limited, and en bloc amendments are allowed.
Committee chairs and ranking members (and their designees): Greater ability to package, offer, and manage printed, pro forma, or en bloc amendments improves leaders' ability to steer floor consideration and produce an orderly, consolidated amendment process.
Members of Congress and regular floor participants: Clear, time-limited debate rules (e.g., one-hour, 40-minute, 20-minute, five-minute amendment rules) increase predictability for the House schedule and reduce the likelihood of extended floor delays.
Rank-and-file members and their constituents: Reduced ability to offer individual, substitute, or late amendments and sharply limited debate time weakens members' capacity to shape legislation and represent constituent interests.
Taxpayers and the public: Waiving points of order, deeming bills read, and bundling multiple amendments can obscure controversial provisions and reduce transparency and public scrutiny of bill text and line items.
Taxpayers and state governments: Waiving Rule XXI and other procedural checks increases the risk that provisions bypass committee review or budget enforcement protections, raising fiscal oversight and unchecked-spending concerns.
Based on analysis of 13 sections of legislative text.
Establishes special House floor procedures—debate limits, amendment restrictions, waivers of points of order, and clerical directions—for consideration of several specific bills and resolutions.
Sets special House floor rules for how several specific measures are considered, debated, amended, and voted on. It prescribes debate limits, which amendments may be offered (including en bloc and pro forma amendments), waives points of order, orders the previous question for final passage with only one motion to recommit, and directs clerical changes to engrossed text for certain bills. Applies these procedures to multiple pieces of legislation including a national security appropriations bill, a Social Security disability demonstration reauthorization bill, and other named House measures; it also lays one resolution on the table and requires the Clerk to append Senate text to an engrossment for another bill. The resolution mainly governs House procedure, amendment scope, debate time, and technical clerical actions if adopted by the House.
1 competing bill is trying to fund this agency
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