Congress passed a bill to fund federal government for 2026.
H.R. 7148 — Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 · Filed by Tom Cole (R-OK) · Introduced Jan 20, 2026 · Signed
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What it does
This bill provides money for federal agencies to run in 2026. It changes the name of one section. The full bill text is not available to review.
Who it affects
Federal agencies and the people they serve would be affected. The excerpt does not show what programs get money.
One thing to notice
Appropriations bills often contain many separate policy changes mixed in. This excerpt is too small to show what happens.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jan 20, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 20, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means and House Committee on the Budget · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Ways and…”
- Jan 22, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 341 - 88 (Roll No. 45).”
- Jan 30, 2026 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate, under the order of 1/30/2026, having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, with amendments by…”
- Feb 3, 2026 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Became Public Law No: 119-75”
- Feb 3, 2026 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
130 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 140 reports from Mar 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $47,388,305 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 8 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 100% of bills with any report.
Tom Cole, who sponsored the bill, received $1,644,758 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Medical Association — $5,643,000 in 2 reports
- National Shooting Sports Foundation — $4,270,000 in 2 reports
- Edison Electric Institute — $4,248,610 in 2 reports
- Elevance Health, Inc. — $4,010,000 in 2 reports
- Pharmaceutical Care Management Association — $3,282,990 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- appropriations — Money that Congress gives to agencies to spend.
- excerpt — A small part taken from a longer document.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (135 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 24, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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