H.R. 6938 - Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
H.R. 6938 - Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
Hearing Information
Meeting Information
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 6:45pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
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Bill Text
Text of H.R. ____ PDF
(as prepared for introduction)
Joint Explanatory Statement
Hearing Documents
Rule PDF
H. Res. 977 PDF
H. Rept. 119-424 PDF
Amendments (click each header to sort table ▲▼ by that column)
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Version 2 | Nehls (TX) | Republican | Revised Increases/decreases by $5,000,000 from the STOP School Violence Act grant program for the purposes of school districts who apply to pilot the Active Shooter School Safety and Security Enhancement Project. | Revised |
| 2 | Version 1 | Titus (NV) | Democrat | Restricts funds to be used to carry out Executive Order 14299 unless the Secretary of Energy submits a report to Congress to include a safety and siting analysis as well as emergency response protocols necessary for such nuclear reactors. | Submitted |
| 3 | Version 1 | Titus (NV) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from being used to reduce, diminish, or revoke a National Monument designation. | Submitted |
| 4 | Version 1 | Grothman (WI) | Republican | Prohibits funds made available by this Act under the ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office on Violence Against Women—Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs (Including Transfers of Funds)’’ to carry out the grant program under section 40295 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 may be made available to a State that does not report to the Attorney General information on the relationship between the victim and offender in cases of domestic violence and child abuse in the State. | Submitted |
| 5 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Prohibits funds for the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revision to the Nonessential Experimental Population of the Mexican Wolf’’ published by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service on July 1, 2022 (87 Fed. 9 Reg. 39348). | Submitted |
| 6 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ), Crane (AZ) | Republican | Transfers funds from the BIA general operations account to the Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements Miscellaneous Payments to Indians account. | Submitted |
| 7 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Prohibits funds to divert water from the Colorado River to Mexico under the Mexican Water Treaty of 1944. | Submitted |
| 8 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Prohibits funds for Presidential Proclamation 10606, establishing the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument | Submitted |
| 9 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Prohibits funds for the Quiet Technology mandate over the Grand Canyon. | Submitted |
| 10 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ) | Republican | Transfers funding from the DOJ salaries and expenses account to support Veteran Treatment Courts. | Submitted |
| 11 | Version 1 | Dexter (OR) | Democrat | Increases funding to the Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General to maintain and enhance the quality of its work promoting accountability, integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness across DOI operations and programs. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 1 | Dexter (OR) | Democrat | Increases funding by $1.5 million to initiate a pilot program for federal wildland firefighter respiratory protection through the Federal Wildland Firefighter Health and Wellbeing Program. | Submitted |
| 13 | Version 1 | Min (CA) | Democrat | Zeros out Attorney General Pam Bondi's salary. | Submitted |
| 14 | Version 1 | Min (CA) | Democrat | Directs the Attorney General to preserve the records and present a report to Congress with more detail and evidence than has been public so far regarding Jeffrey Epstein, including on the investigation of Epstein and any co-conspirators, the testimony and treatment of survivors, the financial and trafficking networks, any connection to the U.S. government or foreign governments, and oversight failures at the prison in New York. | Submitted |
| 15 | Version 1 | Titus (NV) | Democrat | Inserts text from the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act (H.R. 466). | Submitted |
| 16 | Version 1 | Nehls (TX) | Republican | Facilitates and expedites the safe resumption of oil and gas production at shut-in Pacific Outer Continental Shelf facilities by deeming existing Interior approvals sufficient, directing the Department of the Interior to act to restart production, and ensuring resulting royalties are collected for the Treasury. | Submitted |
| 17 | Version 1 | Boebert (CO), Hurd (CO) | Republican | inserts the text of H.R. 131 the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act | Submitted |
| 18 | Version 1 | Mace (SC) | Republican | Prohibits the National Science Foundation from using funds made available by this Act to conduct, or otherwise support, research causing pain or distress to domestic cats or dogs. | Submitted |
| 19 | Version 1 | Steil (WI), Grothman (WI) | Republican | Prohibits funds made available by this Act from being used to implement, administer, or enforce, for any ozone nonattainment area covered by EPA’s December 17, 2024, final rule (89 Fed. Reg. 101901), Clean Air Act requirements that apply to a Serious Area but not a Moderate Area. Prohibits funds from being used to carry out Clean Air Act regulations or State implementation plan provisions, for those covered areas, to the extent they impose Serious Area requirements that do not apply to Moderate Areas. | Submitted |
| 20 | Version 1 | Stanton (AZ) | Democrat | Increases the salary of the Director of the Indian Health Services (IHS) to elevate the position of Director of the IHS within the Department of Health and Human Services to that of a Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary. | Submitted |
| 21 | Version 1 | Stanton (AZ) | Democrat | Increases and decreases by $5,000,000 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operations, research, and facilities expenses for the purposes of continuing activities formerly facilitated by the National Integrated Heat Health Information System Centers of Excellence. | Submitted |
| 22 | Version 1 | DelBene (WA) | Democrat | Reauthorizes the National Landslide Preparedness Act, which funds early warning systems for landslides, the National Landslides Hazard Reduction Program through the U.S. Geological Survey, and implements the 3D Elevation Program data collection initiative. It is identical to H.R. 2250, which was reported out of House Natural Resources by Unanimous Consent on June 25, 2025, and previously passed the House of Representatives in the 118th Congress as a part of the Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2023 (H.R. 6093). | Submitted |
| 23 | Version 1 | Subramanyam (VA) | Democrat | Prohibits any funds from the Interior appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure. | Submitted |
| 24 | Version 1 | Subramanyam (VA) | Democrat | Prohibits any funds from the Energy and Water appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure. | Submitted |
| 25 | Version 1 | Subramanyam (VA) | Democrat | Prohibits any funds from the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill from being used to compensate or reimburse any person or company for rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure. | Submitted |
| 26 | Version 1 | Subramanyam (VA) | Democrat | Requires funding made available to be utilized to promote advancements in DNA analysis technology to solve unresolved cases while considering privacy concerns and civil liberties. | Submitted |
| 27 | Version 1 | Subramanyam (VA) | Democrat | Authorizes grant programs to states that adopt statutes of limitations reforms, including claims related to child sexual abuse, exploitation, and sex trafficking. Identical to Sec. 4 of H.R. 5560 (119th Congress). | Submitted |
| 28 | Version 1 | Subramanyam (VA) | Democrat | Does not make available funds under this Act for infrastructure development in Venezuela, unless authorized by Congress, and unless cuts to nutrition programs are repealed. | Submitted |
| 29 | Version 1 | Huizenga (MI) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA final rule ‘‘Findings of Failure To Attain and Reclassification of Areas in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin as Serious for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards’’ with respect to Berrien, Allegan, and Muskegon counties in Michigan. | Submitted |
| 30 | Version 1 | Subramanyam (VA) | Democrat | Prohibits funds under this Act to be used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) until the DOJ fully complies with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. | Submitted |
| 31 | Version 1 | Neguse (CO) | Democrat | Requires NSF to support the President's FY26 Budget Request regarding the importance of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the need for its funding and operations to continue. | Submitted |
| 32 | Version 1 | Schweikert (AZ) | Republican | Amends the Colorado River Basin Project Act to ensure that, during times of drought or reduced availability of mainstem Colorado River water, the Lower Basin States—Arizona, California, and Nevada—share water cutbacks proportionally based on their original legal apportionments. | Submitted |
| 33 | Version 1 | Clyde (GA) | Republican | Amendment to remove National Firearms Act registration for firearms taxed at $0 | Submitted |
| 34 | Version 1 | Clyde (GA) | Republican | Amendment to prohibit funds for any rule or regulation issued during the Biden Administration or any rule or regulation that further restricts firearm ownership | Submitted |
| 35 | Version 1 | Clyde (GA) | Republican | Amendment to prohibit funds for a Federal firearms registry | Submitted |
| 36 | Version 1 | Clyde (GA) | Republican | Amendment to prevent criminal prosecutions of 18 USC 922(o) during the period of an ATF amnesty | Submitted |
| 37 | Version 1 | Clyde (GA) | Republican | Amendment to strike VAWA carveout | Submitted |
| 38 | Version 1 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Strikes funds to the Justice Empowerment Initiative by Generation Hope. | Submitted |
| 39 | Version 1 | Clyde (GA) | Republican | Amendment to prohibit funds for the Census Bureau to include aliens who are unlawfully present in rendering apportionment determinations | Submitted |
| 40 | Version 1 | Cloud (TX) | Republican | Prevents sanctuary jurisdictions from receiving funds. | Submitted |
Committee Votes
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 226
Motion by Mr. McGovern to add a section to the rule directing the Architect of the Capitol to install a plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the violence that occurred here on January 6th, 2021, as already required by law. Defeated: 3–6
Majority Members
Vote
Minority Members
Vote
Mrs. Fischbach
Nay
Mr. Norman
No Vote
Mr. Roy
No Vote
Mrs. Houchin
Nay
Mr. Langworthy
Nay
Mr. Scott (GA)
Nay
Mr. Griffith
Nay
Mr. Jack
No Vote
Ms. Foxx, Chair
Nay
Mr. McGovern
Yea
Ms. Scanlon
Yea
Mr. Neguse
Yea
Ms. Leger Fernández
No Vote
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 227
Motion by Mr. Neguse to make in order amendment #31 to H.R. 6938, offered by Representative Neguse, which requires NSF to support the President's FY26 Budget Request regarding the importance of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the need for its funding and operations to continue. Defeated: 3–7
Majority Members
Vote
Minority Members
Vote
Mrs. Fischbach
Nay
Mr. Norman
No Vote
Mr. Roy
No Vote
Mrs. Houchin
Nay
Mr. Langworthy
Nay
Mr. Scott (GA)
Nay
Mr. Griffith
Nay
Mr. Jack
Nay
Ms. Foxx, Chair
Nay
Mr. McGovern
Yea
Ms. Scanlon
Yea
Mr. Neguse
Yea
Ms. Leger Fernández
No Vote
Rules Committee Record Vote No. 228
Motion by Mrs. Houchin to report the rule. Adopted: 8–3
Majority Members
Vote
Minority Members
Vote
Mrs. Fischbach
Yea
Mr. Norman
No Vote
Mr. Roy
Yea
Mrs. Houchin
Yea
Mr. Langworthy
Yea
Mr. Scott (GA)
Yea
Mr. Griffith
Yea
Mr. Jack
Yea
Ms. Foxx, Chair
Yea
Mr. McGovern
Nay
Ms. Scanlon
Nay
Mr. Neguse
Nay
Ms. Leger Fernández
No Vote