[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 14, 2026)]
[House]
[Pages H728-H732]
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 7006, FINANCIAL SERVICES AND
GENERAL GOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF STATE, AND
RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call
up House Resolution 992 and ask for its immediate consideration.
The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:
H. Res. 992
Resolved, That at any time after adoption of this
resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule
XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the
Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of
the bill (H.R. 7006) making further consolidated
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026,
and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall
be dispensed with. All points of order against consideration
of the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to
the bill and shall not exceed one hour equally divided and
controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the
Committee on Appropriations or their respective designees.
After general debate the bill shall be considered for
amendment under the five-minute rule. The bill shall be
considered as read. All points of order against provisions in
the bill are waived. Clause 2(e) of rule XXI shall not apply
during consideration of the bill. No amendment to the bill
shall be in order except those printed in the report of the
Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. Each such
amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the
report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the
report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for
the time specified in the report equally divided and
controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be
subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand
for division of the question in the House or in the Committee
of the Whole. All points of order against such amendments are
waived. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for
amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the
House with such amendments as may have been adopted. The
previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill
and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening
motion except one motion to recommit.
Sec. 2. The chair of the Committee on Appropriations may
insert in the Congressional Record not later than January 16,
2026, such material as he may deem explanatory of H.R. 7006.
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The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from North Carolina is
recognized for 1 hour.
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the
customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms.
Scanlon), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume.
During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the
purpose of debate only.
General Leave
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from North Carolina?
There was no objection.
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Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the bill and the
underlying legislation.
Yesterday, the Rules Committee met and produced a rule, House
Resolution 992, providing for the House's consideration of a single
measure, H.R. 7006, the Financial Services and General Government and
National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026.
The rule provides for consideration of H.R. 7006 under a structured
rule, with two amendments made in order. Further, the rule provides 1
hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and
ranking member of the Committee on Appropriations, or their respective
designees, and one motion to recommit.
Mr. Speaker, following last week's progress in advancing three
separate appropriations bills through the committee and on the floor,
we have returned this week to continue our work. H.R. 7006 was
negotiated in good faith on a bipartisan, bicameral basis.
President Trump's priorities, alongside the priorities of the
American people, are interwoven within this important package.
Let me make this abundantly clear, Mr. Speaker: Not only does this
legislative package contain no poison pills, but it also cuts foreign
aid by 16 percent. That is more than $9 billion.
Further, this package is part of an agreement that keeps fiscal year
2026 spending below the level that has been forecasted under the
current continuing resolution.
We are enacting targeted funding to accelerate entrepreneurship and
economic prosperity, guard our Nation's national security posture and
apparatus, and further cement true, unyielding, American leadership on
the international stage.
At the very same time, we are slashing incompatible mandates and
provisions that were cooked up during the Biden administration that
would have weakened America's trajectory to greatness.
With fiscal restraint and an eye toward paving a new and prosperous
path for our Nation, anything--yes, anything--can be possible.
As I said in the committee yesterday afternoon, gone are the days of
inflated omnibuses that have bogged down and constrained this
legislative body. Indeed, we are moving in a better direction and
chucking the Biden budget into the grave where it belongs. Good
riddance.
The bipartisan and bicameral underpinnings of this legislative
package make a compelling case as to why the House must pass it
immediately.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule.
Let me begin by acknowledging the hard work of our colleagues on the
Appropriations Committee who, despite deep divisions and really
difficult political conditions, have assembled a bipartisan compromise
to fund additional portions of the Federal Government for the current
fiscal year.
The bill before us containing the Financial Services and General
Government Appropriations Act and the National Security, Department of
State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, includes hard-fought
Democratic priorities, despite our minority position in the House and
Senate. These Democratic priorities will help working families and
small businesses safeguard our elections and protect American values
and interests abroad.
Democratic appropriators secured funding for vital government
programs that the White House sought to cut, including the CDFI fund,
which promotes economic development in low-income communities; the
Small Business Administration, which provides invaluable financing that
allows people to start or grow their businesses; and the Election
Assistance Commission, which supports State and Federal election
integrity across the country. The package also provides a long overdue
increase in funding for the Federal Defender Services, which gives
access to justice to those who cannot afford it.
Importantly, the bill restores funding, with meaningful safeguards,
for humanitarian and democracy building programs at the Department of
State, programs that were illegally shut down earlier this year by the
Trump administration.
This bill ensures that the U.S. will continue to provide economic and
humanitarian assistance. Specifically, it will support women and
women's health in developing countries and will combat HIV and AIDS
worldwide.
These are victories, and they matter. They matter for small business
owners struggling to secure a loan. They matter for low-income
neighborhoods that are essentially red-lined by big banks and that rely
upon Community Development Financial Institutions. These victories
matter for women and girls around the globe seeking safety, education,
and healthcare.
The restoration of State Department funding matters for all of us who
still believe in the promise of American leadership in advancing a safe
and prosperous global community.
Ultimately, we cannot afford to let funding lapse for those agencies,
and given that we are 4 months into the current fiscal year, I commend
our appropriators for crafting these bipartisan bills to address fiscal
year 2026 so that we can immediately start working on appropriations
for next year, fiscal year 2027.
However, Mr. Speaker, commendable as this package is and as much as I
respect the work of our colleagues on the Appropriations Committee, I
also believe this package reveals the limits of what we can achieve to
meet the needs of the American people under Republican control.
Let's be clear: This bill isn't some compromise where both sides get
a little of what they want. It is the most Democrats could get from a
Republican Party that continues to knuckle under to the whims of the
Trump administration and turn a blind eye to its worst abuses. That is
why our Republican colleagues have rejected multiple provisions to rein
in the unconstitutional power grabs by this President and his
administration.
Republicans control the Senate, the House, and the White House. Under
unified Republican control, we have seen the Federal Government used
not to help the American people but to punish the President's enemies
and to enrich and protect the rich and well-connected at the expense of
the American people.
We have seen it when the Republican trifecta passed a partisan bill
that gave huge tax cuts to big business and billionaires but refused to
extend the ACA tax credits that helped millions of Americans afford
their health coverage.
In their main legislative accomplishment so far, Trump and
congressional Republicans blew a massive hole in the deficit with their
tax cuts for the rich and then tried to pay for it with cuts to
Medicaid, SNAP, and public health programs that Americans rely upon.
We are seeing it play out after a masked Federal agent shot and
killed Renee Good, an American citizen in Minnesota. In the wake of
that killing, we learned that Department of Justice leadership blocked
the decades-long practice of initiating an investigation of an officer-
involved shooting by the Office of Civil Rights. Having blocked that
investigation, they instead opened a politically motivated criminal
investigation of Ms. Good's widow as it tries to brand protected speech
by Americans as domestic terrorism.
The failure to investigate the lawfulness of the officer's use of
force and the weaponization of the investigation to attack the widow
are so beyond the pale that it has sparked a mass resignation by career
prosecutors at the Department of Justice.
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It goes on. Last weekend, the Trump White House launched a criminal
investigation against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, not because
he broke the law, but apparently because he refused to surrender the
independence of the Fed and submit to the President's demand that he
lower interest rates. This is an unprecedented attack on the
independence of the Federal Reserve, an institution that is critical to
the stability of our economy because it is above partisan politics.
Yet, under Republican rule, the independence of the Fed and other
nonpartisan agencies is being destroyed before our eyes because this
President cannot tolerate dissent, and his party will not restrain him.
Just last week, the administration blocked $10 billion in social
services funding to States with Democratic leadership. Yesterday,
President Trump went even further, announcing his intent to withhold
Federal funds from any State that does not embrace his toxic
immigration priorities. This is extortion, plain and simple, directed
against the American people he was elected to serve, and the House
Republican majority is letting him get away with it.
Of course, we cannot forget the continued coverup of the Epstein
files. The Department of Justice was mandated by law to release the
Epstein files last month, last year now, but the vast majority of the
files are still being kept secret, leading us to ask again: Whom is
Trump trying to protect, and why is it the Republicans refuse to hold
him responsible for this blatant coverup? What possible justification
could there be for this secrecy, except to protect the wealthy and
powerful men implicated in those documents.
A suggestion of the answers have come from an unlikely source.
According to former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the
President yelled at her in a phone call that he didn't want to release
the Epstein files because ``my friends will get hurt.''
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The list goes on and on, and the Republican agenda is clear. They
abuse the powers of the Federal Government to protect the elite and
punish the vulnerable.
While I will support the appropriations minibus this week, I call on
my Republican colleagues in the House and the Senate to take seriously
their obligations to this institution under Article I of the
Constitution. We cannot sit by and watch as the executive branch grabs
more and more power at the expense of Congress and at the expense of
the Constitution.
Congress' power of the purse is not just a budgetary tool. It is one
of the last real checks we have on a President who believes that he is
above the law and only constrained by his own morality.
I know my Democratic colleagues fought for everything they could in
this bill under deeply constrained circumstances, so the failures in
this bill are a reflection of the Republican majority, which continues
to look the other way as the President dismantles our Federal
institutions and subverts our democracy.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, we are here to debate this appropriations package, not
every other issue under the Sun. I urge my colleagues not to lose sight
of the legislative package at hand: We have a bipartisan, bicameral
appropriations package free of poison pill riders that bring us closer
to fulfilling our Article I responsibilities.
My colleague says Republicans are in control, but the very bills we
have passed and are passing are bipartisan. We are working across the
aisle, which we should do. Our friends can't have it both ways. They
can't say we are in control, therefore, everything is our fault, and
say at the same time that these are good bills built upon bipartisan
support.
There will no doubt be time to debate other matters, but today the
matter at hand is an appropriations package containing the Financial
Services and General Government bill and the National Security,
Department of State, and Related Programs bill.
Might I add that national security is the number one issue in our
Federal Government. We need to stay focused and complete the task at
hand.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, just to be clear, I didn't say these were
good bills. I said they were the best bills we could get under the
circumstances, and certainly we would craft very different bills.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr.
Khanna).
Mr. KHANNA. Mr. Speaker, no one in America is safe from ICE today.
Joe Rogan said that ICE agents are acting as ``villains,'' stripping
away freedoms from Americans. This agency has gone rogue. It is
lawless, and it needs to be reined in.
The ICE agents who pepper sprayed an elderly couple in Minnesota need
to be arrested and prosecuted. The ICE agents who dragged out a
disabled woman from her car who was going to a doctor's appointment
need to be arrested and prosecuted. The ICE agent who shot and killed
Renee Good needs to be arrested and prosecuted.
When you have people in the MAGA base, when you have people like Joe
Rogan talking about the lawlessness of a private police force--ICE
acting as the President's private police force--then we know we have a
crisis of freedom in this country. It is time to rein in this lawless
agency.
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Again, we should be focused on the issue at hand. Mr. Speaker, we
never celebrate the loss of life on our side. We don't celebrate the
loss of life in the recent shooting, but we cannot absolve people of
the actions they are taking to disrupt ICE's operations.
We certainly shouldn't be looking at ICE agents, condemning ICE
agents who are showing up to do their jobs. Democrats have been
questioning the authority and jurisdiction of ICE's actions in
Minnesota.
Let's shed some light on what ICE has been doing. They arrested a
criminal illegal alien from Somalia with a record of multiple counts of
credit card fraud, drug possession, controlled substance possession,
and drug trafficking. This criminal was issued a final order of removal
in 2022.
ICE also arrested a criminal illegal alien from Laos with three prior
convictions for selling drugs as well as convictions for assault and
contributing to a minor's delinquency. This criminal was issued a final
order of removal in 2009, Mr. Speaker.
A criminal illegal alien from Mexico previously arrested for child
cruelty and battery was also picked up by ICE. This criminal was issued
a final order of removal in 2009.
In addition, there was a criminal illegal alien from Mexico
previously arrested for cruelty toward a child, and a criminal illegal
alien from Somalia previously arrested for dangerous drugs and
possession of narcotics.
We are talking about dangerous people, Mr. Speaker. The list goes on
and on. Let's be clear, ICE is targeting criminal rings, and the Trump
Administration isn't ignoring fraud as Governor Walz had done for
years. They are targeting that criminal ring for immigration
violations, just as they have done elsewhere.
Not long ago, ICE agents arrested more than 150 illegal alien sex
offenders during a major enforcement surge across the State of Florida.
ICE is focusing on rings of criminality, and they will pursue them
wherever they might be, political correctness be damned. Americans are
better off under this approach.
Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, nobody is questioning that the Federal Government has
the duty and authority to arrest and detain and deport these so-called
worst of the worst, rapists, drug dealers, people who have been
convicted, but that is not what is happening across the country. That
is not what ICE is doing.
Eighty percent of the people that they have picked up and that they
are detaining have no criminal record. What we are seeing in Minnesota,
this door-to-door, stopping people in parking lots, and asking if they
are citizens, that is not targeted enforcement. That is putting masked
and armed agents on the streets and causing chaos, as we have
repeatedly seen.
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The Rules chairwoman mentioned one of the people who has been picked
up is absolutely someone who probably deserves to be picked up.
However, they have had over 2,000 ICE agents in Minneapolis for about 6
weeks, and they have arrested about 20 people who fit that profile.
In addition, of course, they have killed Renee Good. They have
arrested American citizens. They have tackled kids outside their high
school. They have tackled teenagers working at Target. They have
terrorized an entire community. That does appear to be part of the
point here is to create propaganda and videos to scare Americans to
project this military power in our streets, which, for any student of
American history, that is why we left the U.K.
I think that the objection here is to the lawfulness of what has been
happening in Minnesota, in Chicago, in L.A., across the country, and
the need to really change how things are being done there.
If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the
rule to make in order Mr. Hoyer's amendment to the FSGG appropriations
bill, which restricts obligating any remaining unobligated balances for
the new FBI consolidated headquarters facility until GSA, in
consultation with the FBI, submits the contracted and completed
architectural and engineering plan for review.
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Mr. Speaker, our colleague, Mr. Hoyer, has served with honor for over
four decades and has ushered countless pieces of bipartisan legislation
through this House.
Now, in this case, all he is asking for is a vote, that the Members
of this body vote on an amendment to make sure that before an extremely
consequential and expensive decision is made with respect to the
location of the FBI headquarters, we receive the architectural and
engineering plan that the General Services Administration is supposed
to complete. That seems like the least we could do.
Regardless of one's position on Mr. Hoyer's amendment, it deserves a
vote on the House floor.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my
amendment into the Record, along with any extraneous material,
immediately prior to the vote on the previous question.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Pennsylvania?
There was no objection.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, to discuss our proposal, I yield 5 minutes
to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the sponsor of the
amendment.
Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her comments and
for her support of my amendment. I regret that my amendment was
rejected by the Rules Committee, but that is not uncommon. An
overwhelming majority of Democratic amendments are rejected,
irrespective of merit.
Mr. Speaker, I suggest to you that this amendment comports with the
debate that I heard in the Rules Committee yesterday. The substance of
that debate was that we need oversight. We need to make sure that we
know what we are doing. We need to make sure that what the
administration or any administration is asking for comports with the
policies of the Congress of the United States.
If we defeat the previous question, we will offer an amendment to the
rule that allows the House to simply consider my amendment concerning
the FBI headquarters.
I will speak more on that matter later, but I am deeply concerned
that moving the FBI to the Reagan Building, as this administration
plans to do, would greatly undermine the FBI's security.
This is a picture of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma. In 1995, a guy
named McVeigh drove a step van up to the street of the Murrah Building
and blew it up, killing 168 people and injuring over 800 people. That
is a major artery in front of the Murrah Building.
The Reagan Building was designed as an open and public-private
building with public access, public accommodations, and the public
coming into the building for eating. It has a big cafeteria. It has a
big parking lot that the public uses and is used by city hall, which is
located right in the middle--or not in the middle, but surrounded by
the Reagan Building.
The amendment that I have simply says: Let's not spend any money on
moving the FBI to this building, which the Murrah Building makes very
clear, and is why the FBI Director came to me in 2009 to have this
facility, the FBI building, moved to a place where you can have
security.
We have some number of security organizations. They are all located
either in the suburbs or at Boeing Air Force base. Boeing Air Force
base is a secured piece of much acreage, so they are not subject to
that risk.
All of these agencies, including the CIA at Langley and other
agencies, four of which are in Virginia, are so that those agencies can
be as secure as we can possibly make them, so that we will not lose
people, FBI agents, CIA agents, NSA agents, or whoever, and that we
will have those facilities in a secure place. All this amendment says
is: Show us the plan to keep our people secure.
The gentlewoman, my friend from North Carolina, said, and I believe
she is accurate, that we are all concerned about the lives of people,
be they government employees or not. This amendment says: Present us
the information, GSA and FBI, that shows us that, in fact, you can make
the Reagan Building safe for a security agency.
If the motion is defeated for the previous question, we will offer
that simple amendment and give everybody in this Congress the ability
to stand up and say, yes, we want to know information before we make
this critical decision.
It is not partisan. It is not ideological. It is simply doing what
the Congress is responsible to do, and that is have oversight and make
judgments based upon the best information they can receive.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the
gentleman from Maryland.
Mr. HOYER. In closing, let me emphasize that this is consistent with
what all of us say and was said in the committee yesterday. Mrs.
Houchin said it particularly well, and others on the committee, when
saying that they want the information necessary to make solid
decisions. If we adopt my amendment, that will accomplish that
objective.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote against the previous
question and for the Hoyer amendment.
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the
balance of my time.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, yesterday in the Rules Committee, Republicans rejected
over 70 amendments submitted by Members of both parties. This included
a handful of amendments that I have submitted, which if adopted, I
obviously think would have improved the bill.
I will highlight those amendments in light of the reporting about the
chaos at the Department of Justice after its leadership quashed a
transparent investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an
ICE agent and instead insisted on opening a criminal investigation into
her widow. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other Trump officials and
conservative commentators have tried to brand Renee Good as a domestic
terrorist in gross contradiction to known facts, but that is not the
key issue here.
Putting aside the refusal to investigate the lawfulness of the
agent's use of deadly force under those circumstances, and the heinous
implication that Renee Good somehow deserved to die because she
objected to the presence of armed and masked Federal agents in her
neighborhood and that she was disrespectful, the President's
characterization, this investigation, and these comments from Secretary
Noem, are the direct result of an underreported and underappreciated
effort by the Trump administration to criminalize constitutionally
protected speech.
Earlier this year, President Trump issued a sweeping memo, directing
Federal agencies to target Americans with criminal and civil
investigations on the explicit basis of constitutionally protected
speech.
The memo literally defines specific categories of political opinions
and beliefs that law enforcement must now
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treat as instances of domestic terrorism.
Following this directive, the Department of Justice then changed its
policies to direct Federal law enforcement agents to target Americans
with criminal investigations for expressing these sanctioned political
views or for participating in protests against the Trump
administration.
This is the kind of political oppression you would expect to see from
authoritarian states like Russia or China, but no, it is here. It is
happening at home.
Our Republican colleagues, who are often so quick to complain about
censorship or the weaponization of the Federal Government, have
remained silent while President Trump has turned the Department of
Justice into a tool of political suppression.
Last night, I proposed an amendment to prohibit the use of any
Federal taxpayer dollars to investigate or prosecute Americans on the
basis of their lawful and constitutionally protected speech.
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Mr. Speaker, every single Republican on the Rules Committee voted
against my amendment, blocking it from coming to the House floor so our
entire body could vote on it.
The First Amendment protects everyone's speech. There are no carve-
outs for those we disagree with. Apparently, as we saw in last night's
vote, House Republicans do not agree with that fundamental American
value.
While Rules Republicans voted down my amendment to protect Americans'
right to free speech, they did make in order a questionable amendment
from our Rules colleague, Representative Roy, that would defund the
D.C. Federal courts and specifically withdraw the salaries for the
staff of two Federal judges.
These two judges have been targeted by President Trump and
congressional Republicans because they have done their job. They have
not bent to the President's will. They have interpreted the law as
written. Therefore, House Republicans are taking the extreme position
of zeroing out the salaries of their staff. It is a cruel and un-
American attack on the judiciary that completely subverts our
constitutional order.
Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my
time.
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, underneath this debate about the appropriations minibus
is the difficult reality that House Republicans have abdicated their
responsibilities to this Chamber, to the Congress, and to the
Constitution. We are not just debating a budget bill. We are debating
whether Congress will continue to function not just as a coequal branch
of government but as the Article I source of the laws that run our
country.
Under Republican leadership, we have seen Congress turned into a
rubber stamp. Republicans have surrendered to the whims of a President
who sees laws as optional and power as personal.
These two appropriations bills, while necessary for the continued
operation of essential government functions, are the limit of how far
the Republican Party is willing to go in defying the President.
Unfortunately, Republicans are more interested in protecting power
than in responsibly governing for the benefit of the American people.
Our job isn't to protect the President. Our job is to fund the
government responsibly and to serve as a check on executive overreach.
As masked agents roam our streets, terrorizing our communities, as
Trump entertains starting another forever war, and as the Epstein files
remain covered up, now is the time for Congress to stand up for the
American people.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous
question and rule, and I yield back the balance of my time.
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, this majority continues to roll up its sleeves and
advance the core priorities of the American people and President Trump.
We are absolutely exercising our Article I responsibilities by passing
appropriations bills.
With our unifying vision and some elbow grease, we are making
significant headway that benefits the American people and our entire
Nation. The legislative package contained under this rule is yet
another commitment that we are seeing through to completion. Its
provisions and intent confirm this through and through.
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the previous
question, ``yes'' on the rule, and ``yes'' on the underlying bill.
The material previously referred to by Ms. Scanlon is as follows:
An Amendment to H. Res. 992 Offered by Ms. Scanlon of Pennsylvania
At the end of the resolution, add the following:
Sec. 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
resolution, the amendment specified in section 4 shall be in
order as though printed as the last amendment of the report
of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution if
offered by Representative Hoyer of Maryland or a designee.
That amendment shall be debatable for 10 minutes equally
divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent.
Sec. 4. The amendment referred to in section 3 is as
follows:
At the end of division A (before the short title), insert
the following:
Sec. __ Any remaining unobligated balances from amounts
originally made available under the heading ``General
Services Administration'' in the Financial Services and
General Government Appropriations Act, 2016 (title V of
division E of Public Law 114-113), the Financial Services and
General Government Appropriations Act, 2017 (title V of
division E of Public Law 115-31), the Financial Services and
General Government Appropriations Act, 2023 (title V of
division E of Public Law 117-328), or the Financial Services
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2024 (title V of
division B of Public Law 118-47) for the new Federal Bureau
of Investigation consolidated headquarters facility in the
National Capital Region that were subsequently transferred
pursuant to a notification received by the Committees on
Appropriations from the Acting Administrator of the General
Services Administrator on September 19, 2025, may not be
further obligated until the General Services Administration,
in consultation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives and the Senate the contracted and completed
architectural and engineering plan for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's new headquarters building for review. Any
classified portion of the architectural and engineering plan
shall be submitted through a classified annex.
Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I
move the previous question on the resolution.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on ordering the previous
question.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Ms. SCANLON. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further
proceedings on this question are postponed.
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