Sponsor
Charles Roy
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
This package speeds consideration of appropriations and select bills—reducing funding risks and procedural uncertainty—but does so by constraining debate, waiving procedural safeguards, and limiting scrutiny, which raises risks to oversight, environmental protections, legal robustness, and transparency.
Federal employees, state and local governments, and taxpayers gain faster congressional action on funding and key bills (reducing risk of funding gaps and legislative delays).
House members and the public get more predictable, time-limited debate windows and clearer floor procedures (reducing procedural uncertainty about how listed bills will proceed).
Companies and contractors that repair or operate preauthorized undersea fiber-optic cables (including small businesses and telecom firms) face fewer federal permitting delays for work in sanctuaries, lowering compliance costs and speeding repairs.
House members and the public face reduced scrutiny because the rules limit debate, floor amendments, and minority procedural tools across multiple measures, making it harder to correct errors or build bipartisan changes.
Law enforcement, state governments, and the public risk poorly vetted or procedurally vulnerable provisions because waiving points of order and deeming substitutes adopted can fast-track language without full committee or floor scrutiny.
Coastal communities, local governments, and marine ecosystems may face weaker safeguards: removing sanctuary authorization requirements and curtailing debate could increase environmental harm from cable installation or maintenance.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Sets expedited House floor procedures—waiving points of order, deeming committee substitutes adopted, limiting debate, and allowing one motion to recommit for specified bills; temporarily waives a Rules Committee same-day vote rule for certain FY2026 continuing-appropriations reports.
Sets special House rules for expedited consideration of multiple bills by waiving points of order, deeming committee substitute amendments adopted, limiting debate to one hour in most cases, and allowing one motion to recommit. Also temporarily suspends a Rules Committee rule about same-day consideration for resolutions tied to FY2026 continuing appropriations through February 13, 2026. The resolution applies tailored procedures to three separate bills named for floor action: one replacing the Judiciary Committee substitute for a measure, one regarding undersea fiber optic cables and national marine sanctuaries, and one amending DOE authorities related to critical energy resources. It mainly changes process on the House floor rather than substantive policy itself.
Official title: Providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1383) to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2189) to modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 261) to amend the National Marine Sanctuaries Act to prohibit requiring an authorization for the installation, continued presence, operation, maintenance, repair, or recovery of undersea fiber optic cables in a national marine sanctuary if such activities have previously been authorized by a Federal or State agency; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3617) to amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to secure the supply of critical energy resources, including critical minerals and other materials, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules.
Introduced February 11, 2026 by Charles Roy · Last progress February 11, 2026