House votes on four different bills bundled as one package.
H.Res. 1398 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8595) making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8884) to amend title II of the Social Security Act to reauthorize demonstration authority for the disability insurance program; providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 1383) commemorating the one-year anniversary of the enactment of the Working Families Tax Cuts; and for other purposes. · Filed by Austin Scott (R-GA) · Introduced Jun 30, 2026 · Failed
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What it does
This rule sets how the House will debate four separate bills. One bill covers defense money for 2027. One covers spending on defense and state programs. One covers Social Security disability insurance tests. One marks one year of tax cuts. The rule limits which changes Members can make. All four bills get one vote together.
Who it affects
Citizens may be affected by defense spending and Social Security disability rules. Members of Congress have fewer chances to change the bills before voting.
One thing to notice
Four bills on different topics are bundled into one vote. Members cannot vote against one bill without voting against all four.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jun 30, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 83”
- Jun 30, 2026 — Failed · Congress.gov: “On agreeing to the resolution Failed by recorded vote: 198 - 224 (Roll no. 231)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $860,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 18 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Austin Scott, who sponsored the bill, received $734,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc — $860,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- rule — A procedure that sets how the House will debate and vote.
- changes — Edits Members propose to add to or remove from a bill.
- bundled — Grouped together so they must be voted on as one package.
- 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 full bill text on Jul 8, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 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 Jun 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 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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