Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water; and Interior Appropriations Act, 2026, With Two Related Bills (SHOWER Act;

H. Res. 977 · H.R. 6938, H.R. 4593, H.R. 5184

This rule currently governs H.R. 6938, H.R. 4593, H.R. 5184.

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Overview

Floor outcome, , and debate structure.

Floor adoption

214 - 212

Floor vote date

Jan 7, 2026

h3-1-119

8-3

213 - 211

one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce or their respective designees.

Committee motion

Motion by Mrs. Houchin to report the rule. Adopted: 8-3

Who Ran The Debate?

The and the original source documents.

Measures Governed

The bills and resolutions linked to this special rule entry.

H.R. 6938

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Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026

H.R. 4593

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SHOWER Act

H.R. 5184

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Affordable HOMES Act

Rule Instructions

Numbered parsed from the source rule text.

No.	Provision text
No procedural provisions have been parsed for this entry.

Rules Committee Vote

Recorded votes on the .

Member	Vote	Party bloc
Ms. Scanlon	nay	Minority
Mr. Neguse	nay	Minority

Amendment	Sponsor	Summary
5	Gosar (AZ)	Prohibits funds for the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revision to the Nonessential Experimental Population of the Mexican Wolf’’ published by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on July 1, 2022 (87 Fed. 9 Reg. 39348).
6	Gosar (AZ), Crane (AZ)	Transfers funds from the BIA general operations account to the Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements Miscellaneous Payments to Indians account.
7	Gosar (AZ)	Prohibits funds to divert water from the Colorado River to Mexico under the Mexican Water Treaty of 1944.
8	Gosar (AZ)	Prohibits funds for Presidential Proclamation 10606, establishing the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
9	Gosar (AZ)	Prohibits funds for the Quiet Technology mandate over the Grand Canyon.
10	Gosar (AZ)	Transfers funding from the DOJ salaries and expenses account to support Veteran Treatment Courts.
11	Dexter (OR)	Increases funding to the Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General to maintain and enhance the quality of its work promoting accountability, integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness across DOI operations and programs.
12	Dexter (OR)	Increases funding by $1.5 million to initiate a pilot program for federal wildland firefighter respiratory protection through the Federal Wildland Firefighter Health and Wellbeing Program.
13	Min (CA)	Zeros out Attorney General Pam Bondi's salary.
14	Min (CA)	Directs the Attorney General to preserve the records and present a report to Congress with more detail and evidence than has been public so far regarding Jeffrey Epstein, including on the investigation of Epstein and any co-conspirators, the testimony and treatment of survivors, the financial and trafficking networks, any connection to the U.S. government or foreign governments, and oversight failures at the prison in New York.
15	Titus (NV)	Inserts text from the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act (H.R. 466).
16	Nehls (TX)	Facilitates and expedites the safe resumption of oil and gas production at shut-in Pacific Outer Continental Shelf facilities by deeming existing Interior approvals sufficient, directing the Department of the Interior to act to restart production, and ensuring resulting royalties are collected for the Treasury.
17	Boebert (CO), Hurd (CO)	inserts the text of H.R. 131 the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act
18	Mace (SC)	Prohibits the National Science Foundation from using funds made available by this Act to conduct, or otherwise support, research causing pain or distress to domestic cats or dogs.
19	Steil (WI), Grothman (WI)	Prohibits funds made available by this Act from being used to implement, administer, or enforce, for any ozone nonattainment area covered by EPA’s December 17, 2024, final rule (89 Fed. Reg. 101901), Clean Air Act requirements that apply to a Serious Area but not a Moderate Area. Prohibits funds from being used to carry out Clean Air Act regulations or State implementation plan provisions, for those covered areas, to the extent they impose Serious Area requirements that do not apply to Moderate Areas.
20	Stanton (AZ)	Increases the salary of the Director of the Indian Health Services (IHS) to elevate the position of Director of the IHS within the Department of Health and Human Services to that of a Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary.
21	Stanton (AZ)	Increases and decreases by $5,000,000 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operations, research, and facilities expenses for the purposes of continuing activities formerly facilitated by the National Integrated Heat Health Information System Centers of Excellence.
22	DelBene (WA)	Reauthorizes the National Landslide Preparedness Act, which funds early warning systems for landslides, the National Landslides Hazard Reduction Program through the U.S. Geological Survey, and implements the 3D Elevation Program data collection initiative. It is identical to H.R. 2250, which was reported out of House Natural Resources by Unanimous Consent on June 25, 2025, and previously passed the House of Representatives in the 118th Congress as a part of the Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R. 6093).
23	Subramanyam (VA)	Prohibits any funds from the Interior appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure.
24	Subramanyam (VA)	Prohibits any funds from the Energy and Water appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure.
25	Subramanyam (VA)	Prohibits any funds from the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure.
26	Subramanyam (VA)	Requires funding made available to be utilized to promote advancements in DNA analysis technology to solve unresolved cases while considering privacy concerns and civil liberties.
27	Subramanyam (VA)	Authorizes grant programs to states that adopt statutes of limitations reforms, including claims related to child sexual abuse, exploitation, and sex trafficking. Identical to Sec. 4 of H.R. 5560 (119th Congress).
28	Subramanyam (VA)	Does not make available funds under this Act for infrastructure development in Venezuela, unless authorized by Congress, and unless cuts to nutrition programs are repealed.
29	Huizenga (MI)	Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA final rule ‘‘Findings of Failure To Attain and Reclassification of Areas in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin as Serious for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards’’ with respect to Berrien, Allegan, and Muskegon counties in Michigan.
30	Subramanyam (VA)	Prohibits funds under this Act to be used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) until the DOJ fully complies with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
31	Neguse (CO)	Requires NSF to support the President's FY26 Budget Request regarding the importance of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the need for its funding and operations to continue.
32	Schweikert (AZ)	Amends the Colorado River Basin Project Act to ensure that, during times of drought or reduced availability of mainstem Colorado River water, the Lower Basin States-Arizona, California, and Nevada-share water cutbacks proportionally based on their original legal apportionments.
33	Clyde (GA)	Amendment to remove National Firearms Act registration for firearms taxed at $0
34	Clyde (GA)	Amendment to prohibit funds for any rule or regulation issued during the Biden Administration or any rule or regulation that further restricts firearm ownership
35	Clyde (GA)	Amendment to prohibit funds for a Federal firearms registry
36	Clyde (GA)	Amendment to prevent criminal prosecutions of 18 USC 922(o) during the period of an ATF amnesty
37	Clyde (GA)	Amendment to strike VAWA carveout
38	Roy (TX)	Strikes funds to the Justice Empowerment Initiative by Generation Hope.
39	Clyde (GA)	Amendment to prohibit funds for the Census Bureau to include aliens who are unlawfully present in rendering apportionment determinations
40	Cloud (TX)	Prevents sanctuary jurisdictions from receiving funds.
1	Nehls (TX)	Revised Increases/decreases by $5,000,000 from the STOP School Violence Act grant program for the purposes of school districts who apply to pilot the Active Shooter School Safety and Security Enhancement Project.
2	Titus (NV)	Restricts funds to be used to carry out Executive Order 14299 unless the Secretary of Energy submits a report to Congress to include a safety and siting analysis as well as emergency response protocols necessary for such nuclear reactors.
3	Titus (NV)	Prohibits funds from being used to reduce, diminish, or revoke a National Monument designation.
4	Grothman (WI)	Prohibits funds made available by this Act under the ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities-Office on Violence Against Women-Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs (Including Transfers of Funds)’’ to carry out the grant program under section 40295 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 may be made available to a State that does not report to the Attorney General information on the relationship between the victim and offender in cases of domestic violence and child abuse in the State.

Amendment

Sponsor

Summary

Gosar (AZ)

Prohibits funds for the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revision to the Nonessential Experimental Population of the Mexican Wolf’’ published by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on July 1, 2022 (87 Fed. 9 Reg. 39348).

Gosar (AZ), Crane (AZ)

Transfers funds from the BIA general operations account to the Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements Miscellaneous Payments to Indians account.

Gosar (AZ)

Prohibits funds to divert water from the Colorado River to Mexico under the Mexican Water Treaty of 1944.

Gosar (AZ)

Prohibits funds for Presidential Proclamation 10606, establishing the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument

Gosar (AZ)

Prohibits funds for the Quiet Technology mandate over the Grand Canyon.

Gosar (AZ)

Transfers funding from the DOJ salaries and expenses account to support Veteran Treatment Courts.

Dexter (OR)

Increases funding to the Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General to maintain and enhance the quality of its work promoting accountability, integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness across DOI operations and programs.

Dexter (OR)

Increases funding by $1.5 million to initiate a pilot program for federal wildland firefighter respiratory protection through the Federal Wildland Firefighter Health and Wellbeing Program.

Min (CA)

Zeros out Attorney General Pam Bondi's salary.

Min (CA)

Directs the Attorney General to preserve the records and present a report to Congress with more detail and evidence than has been public so far regarding Jeffrey Epstein, including on the investigation of Epstein and any co-conspirators, the testimony and treatment of survivors, the financial and trafficking networks, any connection to the U.S. government or foreign governments, and oversight failures at the prison in New York.

Titus (NV)

Inserts text from the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act (H.R. 466).

Nehls (TX)

Facilitates and expedites the safe resumption of oil and gas production at shut-in Pacific Outer Continental Shelf facilities by deeming existing Interior approvals sufficient, directing the Department of the Interior to act to restart production, and ensuring resulting royalties are collected for the Treasury.

Boebert (CO), Hurd (CO)

inserts the text of H.R. 131 the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act

Mace (SC)

Prohibits the National Science Foundation from using funds made available by this Act to conduct, or otherwise support, research causing pain or distress to domestic cats or dogs.

Steil (WI), Grothman (WI)

Prohibits funds made available by this Act from being used to implement, administer, or enforce, for any ozone nonattainment area covered by EPA’s December 17, 2024, final rule (89 Fed. Reg. 101901), Clean Air Act requirements that apply to a Serious Area but not a Moderate Area. Prohibits funds from being used to carry out Clean Air Act regulations or State implementation plan provisions, for those covered areas, to the extent they impose Serious Area requirements that do not apply to Moderate Areas.

Stanton (AZ)

Increases the salary of the Director of the Indian Health Services (IHS) to elevate the position of Director of the IHS within the Department of Health and Human Services to that of a Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary.

Stanton (AZ)

Increases and decreases by $5,000,000 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operations, research, and facilities expenses for the purposes of continuing activities formerly facilitated by the National Integrated Heat Health Information System Centers of Excellence.

DelBene (WA)

Reauthorizes the National Landslide Preparedness Act, which funds early warning systems for landslides, the National Landslides Hazard Reduction Program through the U.S. Geological Survey, and implements the 3D Elevation Program data collection initiative. It is identical to H.R. 2250, which was reported out of House Natural Resources by Unanimous Consent on June 25, 2025, and previously passed the House of Representatives in the 118th Congress as a part of the Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R. 6093).

Subramanyam (VA)

Prohibits any funds from the Interior appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure.

Subramanyam (VA)

Prohibits any funds from the Energy and Water appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure.

Subramanyam (VA)

Prohibits any funds from the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure.

Subramanyam (VA)

Requires funding made available to be utilized to promote advancements in DNA analysis technology to solve unresolved cases while considering privacy concerns and civil liberties.

Subramanyam (VA)

Authorizes grant programs to states that adopt statutes of limitations reforms, including claims related to child sexual abuse, exploitation, and sex trafficking. Identical to Sec. 4 of H.R. 5560 (119th Congress).

Subramanyam (VA)

Does not make available funds under this Act for infrastructure development in Venezuela, unless authorized by Congress, and unless cuts to nutrition programs are repealed.

Huizenga (MI)

Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA final rule ‘‘Findings of Failure To Attain and Reclassification of Areas in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin as Serious for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards’’ with respect to Berrien, Allegan, and Muskegon counties in Michigan.

Subramanyam (VA)

Prohibits funds under this Act to be used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) until the DOJ fully complies with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Neguse (CO)

Requires NSF to support the President's FY26 Budget Request regarding the importance of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the need for its funding and operations to continue.

Schweikert (AZ)

Amends the Colorado River Basin Project Act to ensure that, during times of drought or reduced availability of mainstem Colorado River water, the Lower Basin States-Arizona, California, and Nevada-share water cutbacks proportionally based on their original legal apportionments.

Clyde (GA)

Amendment to remove National Firearms Act registration for firearms taxed at $0

Clyde (GA)

Amendment to prohibit funds for any rule or regulation issued during the Biden Administration or any rule or regulation that further restricts firearm ownership

Clyde (GA)

Amendment to prohibit funds for a Federal firearms registry

Clyde (GA)

Amendment to prevent criminal prosecutions of 18 USC 922(o) during the period of an ATF amnesty

Clyde (GA)

Amendment to strike VAWA carveout

Roy (TX)

Strikes funds to the Justice Empowerment Initiative by Generation Hope.

Clyde (GA)

Amendment to prohibit funds for the Census Bureau to include aliens who are unlawfully present in rendering apportionment determinations

Cloud (TX)

Prevents sanctuary jurisdictions from receiving funds.

Nehls (TX)

Revised Increases/decreases by $5,000,000 from the STOP School Violence Act grant program for the purposes of school districts who apply to pilot the Active Shooter School Safety and Security Enhancement Project.

Titus (NV)

Restricts funds to be used to carry out Executive Order 14299 unless the Secretary of Energy submits a report to Congress to include a safety and siting analysis as well as emergency response protocols necessary for such nuclear reactors.

Titus (NV)

Prohibits funds from being used to reduce, diminish, or revoke a National Monument designation.

Grothman (WI)

Prohibits funds made available by this Act under the ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities-Office on Violence Against Women-Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs (Including Transfers of Funds)’’ to carry out the grant program under section 40295 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 may be made available to a State that does not report to the Attorney General information on the relationship between the victim and offender in cases of domestic violence and child abuse in the State.