{ "as_of": "2026-09-07", "title": "Legislative vehicle procedure record", "purpose": "Separate the provision, House waiver, procedural vote, final vote, and Senate treatment before drawing an accountability conclusion.", "supplied_source": { "path": "work/kit-corpus/appropriations-cross-congress-intake-2026-09-07/source/duties_lifted_supplied.txt", "sha256": "b3ecd55582d7a16500a3681f2fe26106f6319971210db921c19b02b6bc045bed" }, "findings": [ { "claim": "The enacted laws contain 20 separately identifiable appropriations restrictions in the corrected list.", "status": "supported after correction", "basis": "The supplied table contains 19 rows. Official P.L. 119-74 section 434 adds the omitted restriction on implementing mandatory greenhouse-gas reporting for manure-management systems. The supplied explanation that the contractor political-spending restriction appeared twice does not match sections 632 and 735 of P.L. 119-75, which address different disclosures." }, { "claim": "All 20 federal rules were erased.", "status": "not supported as worded", "basis": "Several provisions temporarily restrict use of appropriated funds; some stop future rules, guidance, fees, treaty implementation, or enforcement rather than repeal an existing final rule. Use \u201cregulatory or enforcement restrictions\u201d until each item is typed." }, { "claim": "No member voted on any of the restrictions.", "status": "requires narrower wording", "basis": "The record may show no separate up-or-down vote on each restriction. House members can still vote on the special rule that waives points of order and on final passage of the combined vehicle." }, { "claim": "House Rule XXI was overridden.", "status": "use procedural wording", "basis": "Rule XXI creates points of order. A special rule can waive those points of order. Record the waiver language and adoption vote; describe it as a waiver, not a rule violation or erasure." }, { "claim": "The Senate follows the same route.", "status": "false assumption; separate method required", "basis": "The Senate does not use House special rules. Senate Rule XVI, points of order, unanimous-consent agreements, amendments, motions to waive, cloture, and action on House messages require a separate record." } ], "verified_public_law_texts": [ { "law": "P.L. 119-37", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ37", "checked_items": [ "sections 726, 728, 735, 736, 737, 752, 775" ] }, { "law": "P.L. 119-74", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ74", "checked_items": [ "sections 430, 433, 434, 435, 530, 534, 537" ] }, { "law": "P.L. 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ75", "checked_items": [ "sections 413, 510, 619, 632, 735, 7046" ] } ], "corrected_twentieth_restriction": { "law": "P.L. 119-74", "bill": "H.R. 6938", "section": "434", "heading": "Greenhouse gas reporting restrictions", "effect": "Prohibits use of funds to implement a rule provision requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse-gas emissions from manure-management systems.", "type": "existing-or-future rule implementation restriction", "official_url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ74", "verification_status": "official enacted text checked" }, "house_procedure_examples": [ { "vehicle": "H.R. 1968", "public_law": "P.L. 119-4", "special_rule": "H.Res. 211", "rule_report": "H. Rept. 119-25", "waiver": "All points of order against consideration and against provisions in the bill, as amended, were waived; the Rules Committee amendment was considered adopted.", "rule_vote": "House Roll 66, March 11, 2025: 216-214", "vehicle_vote": "House Roll 69, March 11, 2025: 217-213", "separate_vote_note": "One motion to recommit was permitted; no provision-level vote is established by the special rule.", "official_rule_url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres211/BILLS-119hres211eh.pdf" }, { "vehicle": "H.R. 5371", "public_law": "P.L. 119-37", "special_rule": "H.Res. 722 for initial House passage; H.Res. 873 for concurrence in the Senate amendment", "rule_report": "H. Rept. 119-299; H. Rept. 119-372", "waiver": "H.Res. 722 waived all points of order against consideration and provisions in the initial bill. H.Res. 873 permitted concurrence in the Senate amendment without intervention of any point of order.", "rule_vote": "House Roll 272, September 17, 2025: 216-210; House Roll 283, November 12, 2025: 213-209", "vehicle_vote": "House Roll 280, September 19, 2025: 217-212; House Roll 284, November 12, 2025: 222-209 on concurrence", "separate_vote_note": "The enacted Senate amendment was accepted through one concurrence motion under H.Res. 873.", "official_rule_url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres873/BILLS-119hres873eh.pdf" }, { "vehicle": "H.R. 6938", "public_law": "P.L. 119-74", "special_rule": "H.Res. 977", "rule_report": "H. Rept. 119-424", "waiver": "All points of order against consideration and against provisions in the bill were waived.", "rule_vote": "House Roll 363, January 7, 2026: 214-212", "vehicle_vote": "House Roll 367, January 8, 2026: 397-28", "separate_vote_note": "House Rolls 365 and 366 separately retained Division A and Divisions B-C. They were division-level decisions, not votes on each restriction.", "official_rule_url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres977/BILLS-119hres977rh.pdf" }, { "vehicle": "H.R. 7148", "public_law": "P.L. 119-75", "special_rule": "H.Res. 1014", "rule_report": "H. Rept. 119-462", "waiver": "All points of order against consideration and against provisions in the bill, as amended, were waived; only amendments printed in the report were in order.", "rule_vote": "House Roll 401, January 22, 2026: 214-213", "vehicle_vote": "House Roll 405, January 22, 2026: 341-88; House Roll 413, February 3, 2026: 217-214 on concurrence in Senate amendments", "separate_vote_note": "Two amendments received separate votes, but the listed restrictions did not receive individual up-or-down votes in the recorded House path.", "official_rule_url": "https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres1014/BILLS-119hres1014rh.pdf" } ], "house_record_fields": [ "vehicle and version", "Rule XXI provision implicated", "Rules Committee report", "special-rule resolution", "exact waiver text", "roll call adopting the special rule", "amendments made in order or blocked", "final-passage roll call", "whether the provision received a separate vote" ], "senate_record_fields": [ "vehicle received or substitute offered", "Rule XVI issue", "point of order raised and disposition", "unanimous-consent agreement", "motion to waive and vote", "amendments offered and disposed", "cloture vote", "final-passage vote", "conference report or amendment between chambers" ], "official_procedure_sources": [ { "title": "House Rule XXI and current House rules", "url": "https://rules.house.gov/rules-and-resources" }, { "title": "Senate Standing Rule XVI", "url": "https://www.rules.senate.gov/rules-of-the-senate/" }, { "title": "CRS: The Congressional Appropriations Process", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R47106/R47106.1.pdf" }, { "title": "CRS: Limitations in Appropriations Measures", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R41634/R41634.10.pdf" } ], "unresolved": [ "Type every item as existing-rule implementation restriction, future-rule restriction, guidance/policy restriction, fee restriction, enforcement restriction, or statutory/treaty implementation restriction.", "Complete provision-level division and duration fields and map the Senate treatment of each enacted vehicle.", "Package the underlying 298-row extraction and coding table." ] }