[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 3, 2026)]
[House]
[Pages H1960-H1967]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CONSOLIDATED APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 1032, I call up
the bill (H.R. 7148) making further consolidated appropriations for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes, with the
Senate amendments thereto.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Foxx). The Clerk will designate the
Senate amendments.
Senate amendments:
(1)In section 2 in the matter preceding division A, strike
the matter relating to division H and insert:
Division H--Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026
(2)On page 4, strike lines 15 through 22.
(3)Beginning on page 1132, strike line 9 and all that follows
through ``Sec. 554.'' on page 1235, line 16, and insert:
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DIVISION H--FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026
Sec. 101. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026
(division A of Public Law 119-37) is amended by striking the
date specified in section 106(3) and inserting ``February 13,
2026''.
Sec. 102. For the purposes of the Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of Public Law 119-37),
the time covered by such division shall be considered to
include the period which began on or about January 31, 2026,
during which there occurred a lapse in appropriations.
Sec. 103. Amounts made available in the Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of Public Law 119-37)
and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 for personnel
pay, allowances, and benefits in each department and agency
shall be available for payments pursuant to subsection (c) of
section 1341 of title 31, United States Code and such
payments shall be made.
Sec. 104. All obligations incurred and in anticipation of
the appropriations made and authority granted by the
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026 (division A of Public Law
119-37) and by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 for
the purposes of maintaining the essential level of activity
to protect life and property and bringing about orderly
termination of Government function, and for purposes as
otherwise authorized by law, are hereby ratified and approved
if otherwise in accord with the provisions of such Act.
Sec. 105.
(4)On page 1235, strike lines 22 and 23 and insert: This
division may be cited as the ``Further Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2026''.
Motion to Concur
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I have a motion at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the motion.
The text of the motion is as follows:
Mr. Cole of Oklahoma moves to concur in the Senate
amendments to H.R. 7148.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1032, the
motion shall be debatable for 1 hour, equally divided and controlled by
the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on
Appropriations or their respective designees.
The gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Cole) and the gentlewoman from
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro) each will control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Oklahoma.
General Leave
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include
extraneous material on the measure under consideration.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Oklahoma?
There was no objection.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time that I may consume.
Madam Speaker, the House has done a tremendous job these last few
months as we have finalized true bipartisan, bicameral bills to fully
fund our government in a Member-driven, district-focused way.
Six of those bills have been signed into law by President Trump,
fully funding those departments and agencies through the end of the
fiscal year.
While the remaining six bills have all passed the House, we are
dealing with a partial government shutdown that could have and should
have been avoided.
Funding the government is not an optional exercise. It is the most
basic duty we have in Congress. Two weeks ago, the House and the Senate
struck a bipartisan and bicameral deal to move forward on these
remaining appropriations bills for fiscal year 2026.
The House acted expeditiously to pass these bills, marking historic
progress for our appropriations process and the return to regular order
that every Member of this Chamber wants to see.
I share the frustrations of many that the Senate altered our deal at
the last minute. However, our obligation is not to these emotions. It
is to the American people.
While we all worked hard, especially our cardinals, to ensure that
all 12 bills would be signed into law before the January 30 deadline,
the Senate has put us on a different path. The best choice before us is
to pass these five bills and the short-term stopgap for the Department
of Homeland Security.
This approach delivers full-year funding to more than 95 percent of
the government and avoids the consequence of inaction. To continue the
government shutdown would be to repeat all the same mistakes my friends
across the aisle made in October of last year, throwing Federal
employees into chaos and confusion while they are forced to work
without pay, wreaking havoc on our airports while TSA and FAA are
unfunded, putting undue stress on our military families, and causing
further instability to the United States economy.
Shutdowns are never the answer. They don't work. They only hurt the
American people.
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Today, lawmakers in this Chamber have an opportunity to avoid
repeating past mistakes. I encourage everyone on both sides of the
aisle to do the right thing and close out five of our remaining six
appropriations bills for FY 2026 while enacting funding for core
priorities, including: strengthening America's defense and providing a
well-earned pay raise to our troops; advancing lifesaving biomedical
research and critical education programs; enhancing the safety and
reliability of our skies and infrastructure; supporting small
businesses and strengthening cybersecurity; restoring American
deterrence on the world stage and reinforcing economic and community
strength across the country.
The package also includes a 2-week continuing resolution for our
sixth and final bill, the Department of Homeland Security, which will
give the White House additional time for negotiations.
President Trump is leading by example and engaging directly with
Democrats in good-faith conversations on that front. He also has been
explicitly clear that holding the government hostage is wrong. I
wholeheartedly agree with him.
As he stated just yesterday: We need to get the government open, and
I hope all Republicans and Democrats will join me in supporting this
bill, and send it to my desk without delay.
I say to this Chamber: Let's get it done. The American people deserve
stability, and they expect results. These bills deliver both.
For anyone consulting their conscience, these measures have already
passed the House with strong bipartisan support. The work has been
carried out, and the responsibility now is to get it across the finish
line. This vote is about governing responsibly and doing our jobs.
I look forward to us nearing the completion of our FY26 duties. I
urge all Members to support this bipartisan package.
Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
There are two paths before us today: one if this bill passes and
another if it fails. If we take the first path, if the bill passes,
here is what will happen: The Departments of Defense, Labor, Health and
Human Services, Education, State, Treasury, Transportation, and Housing
and Urban Development will be fully funded through the end of
September.
The Democratic wins we secured in this bill will be locked in. We
will reject $163 billion in cuts to public services proposed by
President Trump. We will increase funding for the National Institutes
of Health biomedical research by $450 million. We will provide over $66
billion for rental assistance programs.
We turn back in the Labor-HHS bill 47 programs that the
administration had slotted for elimination. In the Transportation,
Housing and Urban Development, 24 programs were slotted for
elimination. We reversed that.
We will increase funding for childcare and Head Start by $170
million, secure an additional $5.5 billion for humanitarian assistance,
and boost funding for Federal Public Defenders by $350 million.
We will establish meaningful constraints on the Trump
Administration's ability to abuse the budget process, take expansive
power over Federal funding, Federal spending away from Russ Vought, and
reclaim it for the Congress. If not, the President and Russ Vought will
be in charge of the funds, and we will have no say.
At the same time, funding for the Department of Homeland Security
will continue at its current level for 10 days. It is important to note
that is about 6 legislative days. If we do not pass another bill by
next Friday, the Department will shut down. Having passed the other
full-year funding bills
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today, every other department would remain open.
If we are not satisfied with where we are in those 10 days--6
legislative days--we can withhold our votes without jeopardizing all of
the important Democratic priorities I just laid out and more. We will
be in the strongest possible position to fight for and win the drastic
changes we all know are needed to protect our communities: judicial
warrant requirements, no more detentions or deportations of United
States citizens, an enforceable code of conduct, taking off the masks,
putting the badges on, requiring body cameras, and real accountability
for the egregious abuses we have seen.
If we choose the second path, however, if this bill does not pass,
none of that happens. Instead, we enter a prolonged government
shutdown. Workers across broad swaths of the Federal Government would
be furloughed, public services would be scaled back, paychecks would be
missed.
My Republican colleagues will only talk about those not getting
paychecks--and you can hear it already--instead of my Republican
colleagues having to defend the Department of Homeland Security with
what is happening across the country with these lawless, reckless, out-
of-control agencies marauding over our cities and towns and striking
people where they work and where they live.
Instead of increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health,
new research grants would be frozen, interrupting efforts to treat and
prevent deadly diseases.
Instead of providing funding for rental assistance, payments would be
delayed and families would face the prospect of eviction.
Instead of increasing funding for Head Start, Health and Human
Services would be unable to issue new grants, jeopardizing access to
early education for countless children across this country.
Instead of reclaiming Congress' power of the purse, we would concede
even more discretion to Russ Vought and the White House to abuse the
budget process for their own partisan gain, which they would certainly
exploit, as we have seen.
In 10 days--6 legislative days--we would be in the same place with
regard to Homeland Security. We would have had the bill passed; except
we will have lost all of the Democratic priorities I have laid out.
I have no illusions about ICE and CBP. We must rein in these rogue
agencies. We need to protect our communities. We need to protect the
people and the children in our communities. We must have accountability
for the egregious abuses we have seen. It is understandable the rage
and the fear in the outrageousness of what these activities have been
all over this country.
The only way we can get these things is to fight for them, win them,
and let the public know what we are fighting for. Passing these five,
full-year funding bills today puts us in the best position to win that
fight over the next 10 days--the 6 legislative days--and beyond, if
need be.
I strongly encourage my colleagues to support this bill today and
continue to fight to protect our communities in the coming weeks.
Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from
Arkansas (Mr. Womack), the distinguished chairman of the
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, and my very good friend.
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Mr. WOMACK. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the consolidated
appropriations package before the House today.
Passage of this legislation means that Congress will have provided
full-year funding to more than 90 percent of the Federal Government.
This marks an important departure from the unfortunate norm in which
Congress too often fails to meet its Article I responsibility.
There are many highlights worth noting in this package.
In providing for the common defense, this legislation strategically
increases funding to ensure that our military continues to be the most
lethal in the world, while also ensuring that our allies have the tools
they need to help us defend democracy.
The package also makes investments in biomedical research and small
business development. Together, these measures and more support a more
prosperous America.
Madam Speaker, as chairman of the Transportation, Housing, and Urban
Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, my division of this
legislation cuts back unfocused spending and reduces bureaucratic
bloat.
Before I get into specifics, let me thank my Subcommittee Ranking
Member Jim Clyburn for his partnership. He has been a great friend,
and he has been an invaluable asset and partner through this process. I
appreciate his dedication to crafting this division of the bill and to
advancing the entire package.
The T-HUD division invests in what matters to the American people:
economic growth, safe and efficient mobility, and housing
affordability.
We prioritize aviation safety by allocating over $22 billion for the
Federal Aviation Administration. These dollars will fully fund air
traffic control operations and enable the hiring of 2,500 new
controllers. It will jump-start the modernization of outdated
facilities and equipment, strengthening the safety and reliability of
our national airspace system.
We provide more than $64 billion for highways, taking care to send
the overwhelming majority of these dollars back to the States because
it is at the State level where the best decisions are made, not here in
Washington.
We also provide funding to address our Nation's shortage of safe and
available truck parking. America's truckers work tirelessly to keep our
grocery stores stocked, our packages delivered, and our supply chains
moving. Ensuring they have a safe place to park between long drives is
common sense, and this bill delivers on that promise.
At the same time, we preserve housing assistance for the most
vulnerable, such as youth aging out of our Nation's foster care system,
while promoting affordability through flexible, locally driven programs
that allow communities to expand housing supply without the
micromanagement of the Federal Government.
It does all these things while saving millions of hard-earned
American taxpayer dollars.
I thank my subcommittee staff: Avery, Andrew, Doug, and Mary Beth for
their hard work and diligence. They have been indispensable throughout
this process. Please know that I am deeply grateful to have each one of
them on my team.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the
gentleman from Arkansas.
Mr. WOMACK. Madam Speaker, I am going to take that 30 seconds and
brag on this guy right here, Tom Cole. He has reengineered, somewhat
reinvented a lost appropriations process, and I am eternally grateful.
I know I speak for the American people in thanking Mr. Cole for his
leadership.
I thank my colleagues for this bipartisanship that has been exhibited
by this package. A ``yes'' vote today takes us one step closer to
restoring the confidence that the American people should have in this
Congress.
Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from
Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished ranking member of the Financial
Services and General Government Subcommittee.
Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I thank the ranking member of the
Appropriations Committee for yielding.
Madam Speaker, there are five of these bills which are not
controversial. I urge my colleagues to vote for them to keep the
government operating, to make sure that our Federal employees come to
work and do their job for the American people and get paid for it.
There is one bill in this package that is very controversial. There
is one bill in this package that the overwhelming majority of our side
thinks should not be in the bill, but I remind my colleagues that bill
is funded for the next 10 days or 6 legislative days. During that
period of time, we intend to raise very substantial concerns about the
operations that are being carried out not only in Minneapolis but in
other parts
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of our country by the Immigration Customs and Border Patrol agents.
The Constitution calls upon us to establish justice and ensure
domestic tranquility. Many of my colleagues I know believe that voting
against this bill will make a strong statement about the conduct that
we see being carried out by the agencies I just mentioned.
Let me suggest to them, we need to focus on that issue because the
other five issues that we face, the five appropriations bills that have
yet to have been signed by the President of the United States and will
fund about 76 percent of the government, are things that we have agreed
upon.
After they pass, after they are signed by the President, there will
be a lot of time to debate the operations of Homeland Security and, in
my view, the laws that they are breaking, the Constitution that they
are not respecting, and the human rights that they are undermining.
There will be time for that debate. There will be time for that action.
Today, is a time to fund the majority of government for the American
people.
Minneapolis has shocked the conscience of America. We ought to be
shocked, angry, and disgusted by the taking of life of Renee Good and
Alex Pretti. We the people want to end this violent occupation of our
cities. We the people deserve answers. The Congress needs to rein in
the Department of Homeland Security.
That is why I and so many of my colleagues voted against funding the
Department of Homeland Security--not because we don't need Homeland
Security; we do--but we need it done within the context of the
Constitution and the laws of this country and of our States.
This Congress needs to ensure the Federal Government can continue to
provide vital services to the American people.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the
gentleman from Maryland.
Mr. HOYER. Voting for this bill does that, and voting for this bill
also gives us the opportunity to constrain 6 days, essentially, of
funding with the Department of Homeland Security. Unfortunately, out of
the regular order, they are funded for the balance of the year in many
respects.
This compromise bill serves the interest of funding our government
for the American people and giving us the opportunity to constrain and
to ensure that there are meaningful, substantive, substantial reforms
and restraints placed upon the operations of the Department of Homeland
Security as it must be.
It is essential that we unmask Trump's Federal immigration agents,
force them to abide by the local law enforcement standards for use of
force and use warrants.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the
gentleman from Maryland.
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Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, throughout this year's appropriations
process, we have seen Donald Trump and Russell Vought trample on this
Congress' power of the purse. Some will admit that. Some will say it
silently.
If there were ever a time for this Congress to exercise that power,
it is now. Let us pass five bills on which we have agreement and
substantially restrain and stop the funding of DHS a week from this
Friday. Then, let us come to an agreement on honoring the Constitution,
the laws of this country, and the conduct of law enforcement.
Mr. Speaker, let's pass this bill and then focus on that which the
country wants us to focus on, like a laser, for them, for the people.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from
Alabama (Mr. Aderholt), my very good friend and the distinguished
chairman of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee.
Mr. ADERHOLT. Madam Speaker, I rise today, as my colleagues are, in
support of the FY26 appropriations package. As has been said, it
provides the full-year funding for five out of the remaining six
appropriation bills.
Unfortunately, funding these bills is not optional. It is part of our
constitutional requirements, and we must act on our commitment to the
American people. With this bill before us today, the government will
continue operating effectively and provide stability for the American
people.
The path forward in this legislation reflects President Trump's
negotiations and direction to avoid a long-term partial shutdown and
keep the government operating without further disruptions.
As chairman of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and
Related Agencies Subcommittee, I am honored to work with the ranking
member of this subcommittee, Ms. DeLauro, who also serves as ranking
member of the full committee, in making sure that what we do in this
legislation provides funding for critical projects that support jobs
and local growth in our districts.
The Labor-Health and Human Services bill on the floor today balances
the need for responsible fiscal stewardship while maintaining key
investments in biomedical research, schools, and public health.
Thanks to the negotiations on a bicameral, bipartisan level, funding
decisions have moved through a deliberative, Member-driven process that
emphasizes transparency, accountability, and timely consideration.
The Labor-HHS bill before us demonstrates the will of the American
people who want new priorities and accountability in government,
including priorities to Make America Healthy Again and Make America
Skilled Again.
Investments in this bill are directed to where they matter most: into
lifesaving biomedical research and resilient medical supply chains,
classrooms and training that prepare the next generation for success,
and rural hospitals and primary care to end the chronic disease
epidemic.
These measures are part of an agreement that keeps the FY26 spending
levels below the level projected under the current continuing
resolution, delivering real savings for the American taxpayers.
Enactment and passage of full-year appropriations are vital.
Madam Speaker, in conclusion, I thank the staff on both sides, the
majority and the minority, for all of their hard work in getting this
bill across the finish line. Once again, I urge my colleagues to
support the underlying bill.
Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from
South Carolina (Mr. Clyburn), the distinguished ranking member of the
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Subcommittee.
Mr. CLYBURN. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding
time.
Madam Speaker, as ranking member of the Transportation, Housing and
Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, I rise in strong
support of this bipartisan legislation in large measure because it
freezes funding for the Department of Homeland Security at its current
level while allowing for several days, 10 to be exact, for us to
continue to zero in on that segment of the legislation and hopefully
reach a bipartisan agreement.
We have already reached bipartisan agreements on five other sections,
and one of those in this bill includes $113 billion in discretionary
spending for transportation and housing programs and reflects a renewed
commitment to addressing the affordability crisis and improving the
safety of our transportation systems.
For housing, the bill prevents the eviction of more than 4 million
low-income households served through HUD's rental assistance programs,
including those currently served by Section 8 and public housing.
The bill reinforces efforts to combat homelessness by increasing
funding for homeless assistance grants by $366 million.
It protects investments for mayors and Governors by providing $3.3
billion for the popular Community Development Block Grants program.
It includes $58 million for housing counseling assistance for renters
and first-time home buyers and $8 billion to continue legal aid for
evictions assistance.
For transportation, the bill invests in the safety of the flying
public by increasing FAA operations by nearly $230
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million, enabling the hiring of 2,500 new air traffic controllers. It
increases funding for air traffic control towers and facilities by 26
percent above fiscal year 2025.
The bill also protects investments for continuing Amtrak service
along the Northeast Corridor and national network by providing $2.4
billion.
The bill also includes $100 million for the 2026 World Cup and $94
million for the 2028 Olympics to help transit agencies manage local
transportation in support of games across the country.
Madam Speaker, this year's Transportation-Housing bill will provide
greater economic certainty to communities across the country and
improve the day-to-day lives of everyday people. I urge my colleagues
to support this legislation.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from
California (Mr. Calvert), my very good friend and distinguished
chairman of the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on
Appropriations.
Mr. CALVERT. Madam Speaker, I thank my good friend from Oklahoma,
Chairman Tom Cole, for a job well done.
Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the Senate amendment
to H.R. 7148, which includes my bill, the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 2026. This legislation was a true bipartisan effort
by all four corners of the Defense Subcommittee of the Committee on
Appropriations.
The world is more dangerous than ever. China continues its rapid
military expansion. Russia and Iran remain persistent threats. Illicit
drugs continue to harm Americans here at home. This bill answers that
challenge.
It provides $839.2 billion to strengthen deterrence, support the
administration's America First defense agenda, and modernize our force.
It invests in next-generation aircraft, the nuclear triad, critical
munitions, missile defense, and naval power, funding 17 new ships and
sustaining fleet readiness.
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The bill also drives innovation and efficiency, delivers a 3.8
percent pay raise for our servicemembers, strengthens counterdrug
efforts, and invests in our defense industrial base and infrastructure.
Madam Speaker, these are strategic investments to protect the
American people and to project strength abroad, and I urge all of my
colleagues to support this bill.
Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from
Hawaii (Mr. Case), a member of the Appropriations Committee.
Mr. CASE. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of this as a member of the
Appropriations Committee, as well as of our Subcommittees on Defense
and Homeland Security.
Madam Speaker, I join the vast majority of Americans in condemning
the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. There is brutality
and death in our streets, so-called leaders trashing victims and their
grieving families, warrantless searches, and fear in our own citizens.
I had a State senator in my own district tell me this last week that
she was fearful of going out to talk to her constituents in her
district without her passport.
This is unacceptable. This is un-American, and ICE must be reformed.
Until it is, neither it, nor its parent entity, the Department of
Homeland Security, should be fully funded.
The best way for us to reform ICE is to keep laser focused on ICE
reform, and this measure does exactly that. It gives this
administration and my majority colleagues 10 days to work with us all
to do the right thing. Unless the right thing is done, we should not
fund the Department of Homeland Security
This measure also funds 70 percent of our Federal Government, rather
than shut it down again. I will focus on just a few areas where this is
critical. Let's start with defense, half of our total budget.
It is a time when it is critical to our national security that our
Defense Department be fully operating, be fully focused, be nimble, be
quick, and have the ability to adjust. Yet, we have kept our Defense
Department essentially crippled for 16 months now since the last time
that we funded it in regular order and gave it direction through
funding and oversight. That was fiscal year 2024.
They have been operating on a continuing resolution for 16 months
now, and that cripples national security. That is a national security
risk. No new programs are possible, and procurement is excessively
expensive because it cannot function over multiple years without
effective system-wide modernization. Any military leader will say that
the worst thing going for it right now, at a time when it has to adjust
to the PRC and Russia across a variety of focuses, is that it now needs
full flexibility.
In Financial Services and General Government, this bill funds the
Federal courts. Can we envision a time in our history when it was not
more important that the Federal courts be fully staffed and funded? I
don't think so.
This bill funds Social Security. It enables Social Security to
continue to function for the millions of Americans who depend on it at
a time when Social Security is being crippled by staff cuts.
In Foreign Affairs, this bill provides continued security assistance
to our friends and allies throughout the world. It maintains some
effective projection of presence out there into the world. It funds the
Countering PRC Influence Fund that is so important to us.
In transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, it funds the
FAA so that our air transportation system can continue to function.
For Federal workers overall, who have borne the brunt of our failure
to appropriate in regular order, it will help millions throughout our
country by assuring them that they can continue without great doubt.
We must pass this measure now.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the
gentleman from Hawaii.
Mr. CASE. Madam Speaker, it must not be, need not be, and will not be
at the expense of ICE reform.
We sacrifice none of that mandate to reform ICE by passing this bill
today.
Finally, I say to our Department of Homeland Security employees out
there who have served us so well through so much difficulty, to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security Investigations,
Customs and Border Protection, Transportation Security Administration,
they do critical work for us, and we apologize to them that we must
create uncertainty to them for the foreseeable future, but we ask them
to understand that reforming ICE is critical not just to those who are
suffering at the hands of ICE, but it is critical to our country.
They will be paid. They will be paid because this continues their
pay. But because of the uncertainty that they must live with until we
get this resolved, we appreciate their cooperation.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from
Florida (Mr. Diaz-Balart), my very good friend, my classmate, the co-
chairman of the full committee, and the chairman of the Subcommittee on
National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs.
Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Madam Speaker, I am going to reserve what I am going
to say about Chairman Cole until the end, but I thank the ranking
member of the full committee, Congresswoman DeLauro, and the
subcommittee ranking member, Congresswoman Frankel, for their work on
this bill.
Madam Speaker, this full-year funding really refocuses our Nation's
foreign policy in historic ways. It focuses on the United States'
national security, but it does so while also restoring fiscal sanity.
In the foreign policy arena, it actually reduces spending by 16
percent. Within those really historic reductions, the bill does more to
counter our adversaries like China and Iran, the cartels in our
hemisphere, and support our allies and friends. It does a lot more
while spending a lot less money.
Madam Speaker, the bill increases funding to counter fentanyl. It
increases support for religious freedom and to address religious
persecution around the planet. It maintains our longstanding pro-life
provisions, and this bill removes controversial funding directives like
the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. It makes double-digit
reductions to the U.N. funding. More importantly, or equally as
important, it gives the Secretary of State the tools and leverage to
demand much-needed reforms.
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These are historic changes, and this approach, again, protects
American taxpayers but also the national security interests of the
United States.
Madam Speaker, we would not be here debating this if it wasn't for
the brilliant, persistent leadership of the full committee chairman. A
lot of folks said that we would never get here and that we would end up
with another long-term CR, which would have been so detrimental to our
country, but I will tell you that it was Tom Cole--yes, with his
partners--but Tom Cole who brought us this far, who is going to
actually get these bills passed and sent to the President for his
signature.
Madam Speaker, the country owes Chairman Cole a debt of gratitude.
Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Guam
(Mr. Moylan), my very good friend.
Mr. MOYLAN. Madam Speaker, I thank my friend, Chairman Cole, for the
great work he has done on the appropriations. That is why I rise today
in support of the measure before us.
Madam Speaker, the Senate amendment preserves the bipartisan funding
bills that this Chamber has agreed to while giving us the necessary
time to come to an agreement on Homeland Security funding.
We simply cannot allow our troops or Federal employees to miss
another paycheck. If we fail to send this bill to the President's desk
today, the shutdown will continue to drag on and limit access to the
programs that Americans across the country rely on for healthcare,
education, and national security.
In Guam, where the enlistment rate is the highest in the Nation, many
of our families rely on a timely paycheck for everyday needs. This bill
strengthens support for our servicemembers and includes a 3.8 percent
pay raise for all military personnel and continues the pay rate
increases for our junior enlisted servicemembers.
Madam Speaker, I strongly agree with and urge my colleagues to
support this measure and to support the American people.
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Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from
California (Mr. Kiley), my very good friend.
Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, the passage of this legislation
will kick off a 10-day negotiation around an issue that is causing deep
divisions throughout the country. I do believe we can come together
around a set of reforms that will advance and focus the mission of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement while protecting our officers and
protecting the public.
However, such reforms must go hand in hand with a commitment to stop
jurisdictions like Minnesota and California from releasing dangerous,
wanted individuals as some sort of act of defiance, thereby forcing
immigration authorities to go into communities rather than have an
orderly transfer in a custodial setting.
I want to read a quote on this topic. It reads as follows: ``I do not
consider it in the service of public safety to release an individual
into the community when that individual can be released to Immigration
and Customs Enforcement for prompt removal.''
That statement comes not from President Trump, not from Secretary
Noem, but from Alejandro Mayorkas, President Biden's Secretary of
Homeland Security.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania). The time of
the gentleman has expired.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the
gentleman from California.
Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, if even Secretary Mayorkas can
recognize the folly of these so-called sanctuary policies, then all of
us on both sides of the aisle should be able to as well.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, and I reserve the
balance of my time.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, I just would outline for a moment the impacts of the
failure to pass the five bipartisan, House-passed spending measures and
what that would do.
For military personnel, an extended shutdown will harm both military
and civilian personnel at DOD who could not legally receive pay during
a shutdown.
Federal courts would no longer have funding to sustain full-paid
operations, and the courts can only carry out limited functions.
The Community Development Financial Institutions, if that lapses, the
money will be withheld in funding for almost 1,500 credit unions,
banks, and community financial institutions.
The SBA would be unable to approve $170 million per day in loan
assistance.
For the Social Security Administration, thousands of Social Security
Administration employees would likely be furloughed, there would be
delays on the SSA's 800 number and limited hours of operation.
At the National Institutes of Health, it would freeze funding for new
research grants, including research on cancer, Alzheimer's, ALS, heart
disease, diabetes, kidneys, mental health, maternal mortality,
infectious diseases, genetic diseases, and the list goes on and on.
Community health centers would receive only partial funding to
provide healthcare services for low-income patients.
For Head Start, if funding lapses, thousands of low-income children
would be at risk to losing access to Head Start programs.
Senior nutrition grants are at risk, Meals on Wheels as well as
congregate meals.
Worker protection agencies would likely furlough Federal staff who
are responsible for investigating wage theft and safety and health
hazards in high-risk areas.
That is just a small smattering of the impact of the failure to pass
these five bipartisan bills, where we had 341 ``yes'' votes in this
Chamber not 3 weeks ago.
Now, some might say: Well, what do you think about what ICE and the
CBP are doing? I am not unaware of that. I share the anger. I share the
outrage of what they have done. Yes, it is Minnesota, but it is also
what is happening all over this country.
People are being beat up. They are being pulled out of schools,
pulled out of churches, and people are so frightened to death that they
carry their passports with them. They are American citizens, and they
are frightened.
What have we proposed in this area? This is when we were doing the
appropriations bill: Prohibition on detaining or deporting U.S.
citizens, reducing funding for ICE, prohibition on the use of Border
Patrol and CBP officers, a requirement for DHS law enforcement to use
body-worn cameras, require reporting on the use of force, training
standards--they should be trained in de-escalation, and that is what
ought to be happening instead of fomenting escalation--requiring ICE
warrants, and there are other things.
I might add, just so that the people on the committee here
understand, in June of 2025, the House Committee on Appropriations
advanced the fiscal year 2026 Department of Homeland Security
appropriations bill. It included bipartisan reforms and safeguards
designed to protect U.S. citizens and vulnerable communities.
However, when the bill was renegotiated in January 2026, these
critical reforms were removed. Democrats and Republicans voted for
these reforms, and they must do it again.
The list goes on: No funds if DHS violates the First Amendment, the
Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment; no funds for detaining and
deporting U.S. citizens; no prohibition on video recording for ICE.
This was all passed in the Committee on Appropriations and then
stripped out.
The fact of the matter is we need to focus like a laser in these 10
days--6 legislative days--on DHS. Let's not have to focus on five
agencies where there is agreement on what we do. There is agreement on
our side of the aisle. Despite what the press may report, there is not
a single Democrat in this body who believes what ICE and the CBP are
doing is acceptable. I cannot believe that a number of my Republican
colleagues don't feel the same way.
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Let us focus in on the Department of Homeland Security. Let the
public understand the nature of the fight. Quite honestly, let my
Republican colleagues at the administration defend the Department of
Homeland Security and its lawlessness and recklessness when the
majority of this country are seeing what they are doing.
We all want the same thing. We want to keep our constituents safe. We
want to stop the violence in our streets. We want to end chaos in our
communities that these out-of-control agencies have created.
The simple truth is we have a better chance of imposing real
constraints on ICE and the CBP if this bill passes than if it fails. We
have a better chance at securing justice, justice for Renee Good, Alex
Pretti, and all of those people all over this country who have been
harassed, who have been beaten, who have been taken out of their homes,
5-year-old children being detained. That is the reality. Nobody wants
that.
However, we have a better chance of justice for these folks if this
bill passes rather than if it fails. We have a better chance of putting
an end to what has become a season of terror if this bill passes than
if it fails.
I am asking my colleagues to understand the moment and meet the
moment. We have an opportunity over these next several days to lay out
the arguments against what the Department of Homeland Security, its
leadership, and what this administration has wrought on the American
people.
We serve in this body to be responsive to the American people. They
are clamoring, and they are crying out for help. We can help them with
passing five bills that meet their needs, and we can help them by
gaining control and focusing our ire and our anger over an agency that
is run, in my view, by incompetence, by lies, and by terror. That is
not who we are. Those are not the values of the American people. Those
are not the values of the people in this body.
Everyone sees what is happening. We can't let go of the gains that
have been made that make a difference in people's lives, in the
education of their kids and their health and their safety, of looking
at substance abuse and opioid addiction and how we can deal with that,
transportation, rent assistance, homeless assistance, maternal
mortality, childcare, and Head Start.
There are two paths that we face today. One: If we pass the bills and
see what our opportunities are to make a difference and make changes in
an agency so needed to be changed--and I do believe we all recognize
that--and at the same time to save the American people. We understand
the crisis of the cost of living that you have.
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We are there to defend you and your family and to make life and make
government work on your behalf. That is our responsibility. I view that
as my responsibility as the ranking member of the Appropriations
Committee. This is the way our government functions, and we have a
better chance to end this season of terror.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. COLE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, when you reach a point like this, there are a lot of
people to thank. I will begin by thanking the President of the United
States. He supported each and every one of these tranches of bills that
have been brought to the floor during this critical month where we
completed the appropriations process. We would not be here today
without him. We would probably not be voting on this bill without him.
He has been working today tirelessly to make sure we followed our own
procedures and brought this bill to the floor. I personally thank
President Trump for his contribution to funding the government.
People forget around here that he has to sign the bills. If he
doesn't sign them, believe me, he can sustain any veto he cares to
cast. He has used his influence and his power constructively to bring
us together across partisan lines and to pass what are bipartisan,
bicameral bills. I am eternally grateful for that.
Mr. Speaker, I thank my own leadership. I don't know where Speaker
Johnson got his patience from, but it must be God-given, because his
support throughout this process working with us, never giving up,
trying to restore regular order, has been incredible and I think
unparalleled in the history of the speakership, in my view.
I thank the other members of our leadership: Leader Scalise, Whip
Emmer, and Conference Chair McClain. They all worked really hard to
make sure that we could come together and work across the lines. They
gave us the freedom and flexibility that we needed, but they also
provided the persuasion that is necessary both within our own ranks and
across the aisle.
I thank especially the cardinals and the ranking members of the
subcommittees. The ranking member and I agree, and we have tried to
force decisionmaking down because we trust our cardinals and ranking
members. They know their subjects. They know one another. They work
together. Without them--and they solved most of the issues that were
before us--we wouldn't be here. That model worked well because the
people that we relied on, our chairmen and our ranking members, are
people that we know and trust and that, frankly, know one another and
trust one another and work well together. I am extraordinarily proud of
this committee for what it did.
I also particularly thank my friend, the ranking member across the
aisle. Now, we don't always agree. As a matter of fact, once our mutual
friend and former colleague Ambassador Rahm Emanuel called us the odd
couple. That may be true. We don't usually start in the same place, but
we are here today able to fund the government, 76 percent of the
Government of the United States, because of the ranking member and
because of her leadership and her hard work to find common ground. I
admire her tremendously as a person, and I appreciate her as a working
partner.
We also have working partners in the United States Senate. If we
didn't have Chairwoman Collins and if we didn't have Ranking Member
Patty Murray, we wouldn't be here either.
Again, this is not just a bipartisan or a House agreement. This is a
bicameral agreement. Those institutional lines are sometimes more
difficult than the partisan lines to negotiate, but we managed to do
that. I am proud of each and every one of my ranking members but
particularly the ranking member of my committee, the Appropriations
Committee, in the House.
We have had a lot of folks who have worked hard. We may have some
disagreements in the coming days. We probably will. I would be
surprised if we don't. But I know if we work hard, we can work through
them and get to a successful conclusion.
My friend, for instance, mentioned body cameras. I couldn't agree
more. It is something we added in the bill but something she advocated
for and championed. We agree on the need for additional training. There
is lots we can find in common as we try to work through this, and I
hope we are able to do that.
The important thing today, Mr. Speaker, is to finish the task, to
take these bills, which represent the vast majority of things where we
have found common ground and agreement in a process of give and take
and good faith efforts and compromise and debate, and make sure that
they pass and reach the President's desk so we do not put American
Federal workers and American soldiers and American public servants out
of work. We let them do their job on behalf of the American people.
Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle
to support what is genuinely a bicameral and bipartisan product and one
that the President will sign and has urged us to pass.
Mr. Speaker, again, I urge passage of this legislation, and I yield
back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
Pursuant to House Resolution 1032, the previous question is ordered.
The question is on the motion by the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr.
Cole).
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 217,
nays 214, not voting 1, as follows:
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[Roll No. 53]
YEAS--217
Aderholt
Alford
Allen
Amodei (NV)
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Barrett
Baumgartner
Bean (FL)
Begich
Bentz
Bergman
Bice
Biggs (SC)
Bilirakis
Bishop
Bost
Bresnahan
Buchanan
Calvert
Carey
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Case
Ciscomani
Cline
Cloud
Clyburn
Clyde
Cole
Collins
Comer
Courtney
Crank
Crawford
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davidson
Davis (NC)
De La Cruz
DeLauro
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Downing
Dunn (FL)
Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
Evans (CO)
Ezell
Fallon
Fedorchak
Feenstra
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flood
Fong
Foster
Foxx
Franklin, Scott
Fry
Fulcher
Garbarino
Gimenez
Golden (ME)
Goldman (TX)
Gonzales, Tony
Gooden
Gosar
Gottheimer
Graves
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hageman
Hamadeh (AZ)
Haridopolos
Harrigan
Harris (MD)
Harris (NC)
Harshbarger
Hern (OK)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Himes
Hinson
Houchin
Hoyer
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunt
Hurd (CO)
Issa
Jack
Jackson (TX)
James
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kaptur
Kean
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy (UT)
Kiggans (VA)
Kiley (CA)
Kim
Knott
Kustoff
LaHood
LaLota
Langworthy
Larsen (WA)
Latta
Lawler
Lee (FL)
Letlow
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luttrell
Mace
Mackenzie
Malliotakis
Maloy
Mann
Mast
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McCormick
McDowell
McGuire
Messmer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (OH)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Moolenaar
Moore (AL)
Moore (NC)
Moore (UT)
Moore (WV)
Moran
Murphy
Nehls
Newhouse
Norman
Nunn (IA)
Obernolte
Onder
Owens
Palmer
Patronis
Perez
Peters
Pfluger
Reschenthaler
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rouzer
Rulli
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schmidt
Schrier
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sessions
Sewell
Shreve
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Strong
Stutzman
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Turner (OH)
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Van Epps
Van Orden
Veasey
Wagner
Walberg
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Wied
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yakym
Zinke
NAYS--214
Adams
Aguilar
Amo
Ansari
Auchincloss
Balint
Barragan
Beatty
Bell
Bera
Beyer
Biggs (AZ)
Boebert
Bonamici
Boyle (PA)
Brecheen
Brown
Brownley
Budzinski
Burchett
Burlison
Bynum
Cammack
Carbajal
Carson
Carter (LA)
Casar
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Cherfilus-McCormick
Chu
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Cohen
Conaway
Correa
Costa
Craig
Crane
Crockett
Crow
Davis (IL)
Dean (PA)
DeGette
DelBene
Deluzio
DeSaulnier
Dexter
Dingell
Doggett
Donalds
Elfreth
Escobar
Espaillat
Evans (PA)
Fields
Figures
Fine
Fletcher
Foushee
Frankel, Lois
Friedman
Frost
Garamendi
Garcia (CA)
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Gill (TX)
Gillen
Goldman (NY)
Gomez
Gonzalez, V.
Goodlander
Gray
Green, Al (TX)
Grijalva
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyle (OR)
Huffman
Ivey
Jackson (IL)
Jacobs
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kamlager-Dove
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy (NY)
Khanna
Krishnamoorthi
Landsman
Larson (CT)
Latimer
Lee (NV)
Lee (PA)
Leger Fernandez
Levin
Liccardo
Lieu
Lofgren
Luna
Lynch
Magaziner
Mannion
Massie
Matsui
McBath
McBride
McClain Delaney
McClellan
McCollum
McDonald Rivet
McGarvey
McGovern
McIver
Meeks
Menefee
Menendez
Meng
Mfume
Mills
Min
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Morrison
Moskowitz
Moulton
Mrvan
Mullin
Nadler
Neal
Neguse
Norcross
Ocasio-Cortez
Ogles
Olszewski
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pelosi
Perry
Pettersen
Pingree
Pocan
Pou
Pressley
Quigley
Ramirez
Randall
Raskin
Riley (NY)
Rivas
Ross
Roy
Ruiz
Ryan
Salinas
Sanchez
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schneider
Scholten
Schweikert
Scott (VA)
Self
Sherman
Simon
Smith (WA)
Sorensen
Soto
Spartz
Stansbury
Stanton
Steube
Stevens
Strickland
Subramanyam
Suozzi
Swalwell
Sykes
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Timmons
Titus
Tlaib
Tokuda
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Tran
Underwood
Vargas
Vasquez
Velazquez
Vindman
Walkinshaw
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Whitesides
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)
NOT VOTING--1
Crenshaw
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Mr. TIMMONS changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Mr. DAVIDSON and Ms. MACE changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the motion to concur was agreed to.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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