Through appropriations legislation, Congress provides not only budget authority for federal agencies and departments to operate, but also legally binding direction on how that budget authority can (or cannot) be used. These directions may appear in three places in an appropriations act: 1. in the language of individua…
Read the report ↗Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
Motion by Senator Thune to reconsider the vote by which the fourth cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure was not invoked (Record Vote No. 73) rendered moot in Senate.
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Critical infrastructure refers to the machinery, facilities, and information systems that enable critical functions of governance, public health, and the economy. Risks to infrastructure include terrorism, organized crime, cyberattacks, and hostile action by foreign governments, as well as natural hazards, accidents,…
The second Trump Administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) budget request for FY2026 included $848.3 billion in discretionary funding and $113.3 billion in mandatory funding (DOD is “using a secondary Department of War designation,” under Executive Order 14347, dated September 5, 2025). Of the discretionary funding…
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In the nature of a substitute.
Latest action: Amendment SA 4790 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.
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Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1014, the amendment specified in section 7 of H. Res. 1014 is considered adopted.
Latest action: On agreeing to the Rules amendment (A001) Agreed to without objection.