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In formal markup the committee adopts a closed rule for all four measures, rejects Democratic attempts to expand the agenda to bills on farm relief, health coverage, food security, Iran war funding, and energy costs, and then reports the rule favorably along party lines while designating floor managers and setting tightly controlled House debate conditions.
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Delegate Moylan separately advocates his amendment to exclude deep seabed mining near Guam from FAST‑41 eligibility, citing BOEM interest, strong territorial opposition, and scientific uncertainty about ecosystem impacts, leaving adoption to subsequent rule and floor decisions.
The Committee on House Administration presents H. Res. 1490 as a denunciation of Democratic Socialists of America positions and a vehicle to bolster citizen‑only voting and the SAVE Act, while Democrats attack it as non‑binding messaging tied to voter‑suppression efforts; members clash over definitions of socialism, federal equity stakes under Trump, non‑citizen voting risks versus rarity of fraud, and the resolution’s silence on tariffs, Iran war authorities, and alleged Trump‑era corruption.
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Education and Workforce members examine H.R. 4795’s proposed funding conditions on institutional boycotts of Israel, with Republicans portraying BDS as discriminatory conduct that warrants deterrence and Democrats arguing the measure targets no actual institutional BDS policies, risks First Amendment violations, and diverts from adequately resourcing civil‑rights enforcement against campus antisemitism and other bias.
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Natural Resources leaders debate H.R. 1501 and H.R. 9436, with Republicans emphasizing domestic mineral supply, permitting timelines, and Maine fishery jobs, while Democrats warn of weakened environmental and tribal safeguards, expanded FAST‑41 coverage for non‑critical mining, and heightened extinction risks for the North Atlantic right whale, including later discussion of Guam‑related seabed mining exclusions.
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The Chair and Ranking Member set the procedural framework and sharply contrasting narratives for the week’s rule, outlining the four measures (mining, lobster/right whale, campus BDS, anti‑socialism) and disputing whether the Republican agenda addresses affordability, war powers, and public priorities.
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The committee considers and rejects two amendments to the State–Foreign Operations bill concerning U.S. impacts on Cuba’s health system and penalties tied to Cuban medical brigades, then proceeds to a final recorded vote to report the overall rule on all four bills before adjourning.
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Minority members seek to modify the rule by removing the veterans bill due to opposition from veterans’ organizations and by making a competing permanent standard time bill in order, prompting majority defenses of the underlying packages before both amendments fail on party‑line recorded votes.
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The chair ends witness testimony and moves a comprehensive rule governing consideration of four bills, after which the ranking member attacks the closed rule structure and the plan to merge the SAVE Act into another bill, pressing the majority on the repeat use of this strategy after prior failures.
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Majority and minority leaders present their health, economic, and public support arguments for H.R. 139, while Rep. Scanlon and others raise scientific, historical, and regional concerns favoring permanent standard time, culminating in Q&A on health data, state exemptions, and member views on local impacts.
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The chair opens the Rules Committee hearing on H.R. 139 and outlines the agenda, followed by the ranking member’s broad criticism of the majority’s legislative priorities, tariffs, veterans policy offsets, foreign operations bill, Iran war, and the SAVE Act’s impact on House floor business.
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In the closing business meeting, the committee adopts a structured rule for the NDAA, tax, and SSDI bills, formally appending the SAVE America Act to the NDAA, while Democrats protest blocked amendments and unsuccessfully move numerous rule changes on disability protections, Pakistan aid conditions, NDAA funding cuts, torture returns, VA abortion policy, and the Major Richard Star Act before final party‑line approval.
Two amendment panels present proposed NDAA changes on border crime and Venezuelan gangs, biotech and NASA financing, Indo‑Pacific nuclear and contracting limits, psychedelic therapies, fentanyl and robocall enforcement, organ trafficking and UNRWA, and Delphi pensions, followed later by additional amendments on maternal mortality, UAP records, Corporate Transparency Act rollbacks, NNSA oversight, SHIPS and nuclear‑test constraints, and blocking a White House ballroom.
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Ways and Means Republicans promote H.R. 8884 as a voluntary, guardrailed SSA demonstrations tool and defend the tax package as focused on sub‑$200,000 earners, while Democrats warn of Trump‑era disability cuts, broad demo authority, and tax benefits skewed to the wealthy; members then debate using demos to fix work cliffs for Purple Heart veterans and clash over distributional tables, child poverty, and offsets via Medicaid, SNAP, and ACA cuts.
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Armed Services leaders present the FY 2027 NDAA’s $1.15 trillion authorization, emphasizing pay, readiness, and rebuilding the defense industrial base, followed by member Q&A on service‑member support, the proposed Trump‑class battleship, deficits, wartime spending, and tax‑cut impacts, with the Chair probing how long‑term contracts and supply‑chain policies will expand capacity and competition.
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The Chair and Ranking Member set hearing procedures, outline the four measures before the Rules Committee (FY 2027 NDAA, SSDI demonstrations bill, Working Families Tax Cuts resolution, and H.R. 8595), and sharply contrast Republican and Democratic priorities on housing, affordability, and the overall agenda.
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The hearing turns to H.R. 1181 on firearm‑specific merchant category codes, with Republicans emphasizing financial privacy and risks of debanking and Democrats stressing investigative tools and public‑safety benefits, then concludes with amendment proposals on water, tribal, and foreign‑policy priorities, adoption of a combined rule governing all measures, and party‑line approval before adjournment.
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The committee considers H.R. 9237, with Republicans promoting a large veterans benefits package financed through disability rating changes and other offsets while Democrats and VSOs object to prospective cuts for future disabled veterans, and members probe impacts on future claimants, PAYGO rules, and alternative offsets such as DOD funding.
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Members examine the State and National Security appropriations bill alongside broader oversight of foreign assistance, debating an America First reorientation with reduced UN and soft‑power funding against Democratic warnings about weakened diplomacy, development, global health, and humanitarian leadership, before broad Q&A on specific funding choices and geopolitical impacts.
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The chair opens the Rules Committee hearing, outlines the four measures under consideration, and Republicans and Democrats set competing narratives on the overall appropriations and authorizing agenda, including claims of pro‑Trump priorities versus accusations of cuts to diplomacy, climate, and veterans’ protections.
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The committee holds a final recorded vote approving the underlying same-day rule for reconciliation-related resolutions, appoints floor managers, outlines expected floor time for debate, and then formally adjourns the meeting.
Further minority amendments seek same-day authority for measures on energy bills relief and farm and family relief in response to tariffs and the Iran war, citing rising utility costs and farm bankruptcies, yet both proposals are rejected by the Republican majority on recorded votes.
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Democratic members push amendments to allow same-day consideration of a food security bill reversing SNAP and WIC cuts and highlight alleged abuses and deaths in ICE custody to contrast priorities, but the majority defeats the proposed food security expansion of the rule on a recorded vote.
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The majority introduces the main same-day rule for the reconciliation-related resolution while the minority attempts to expand it to include an ACA/healthcare costs bill and an Iran War Powers resolution linking war policy to gas prices, with both Democratic amendments rejected on recorded party-line votes.
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The Chair opens the emergency Rules Committee meeting, explains the need for same-day authority on a reconciliation bill funding ICE and CBP, and the Ranking Member contests both the claimed urgency and the prioritisation of immigration enforcement over other policy areas.
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The committee concludes by adopting a structured rule for the Agriculture/FDA bill and closed rules for the child care, ghost students, and TANF bills, specifying debate terms and motions to recommit, and approves the rules package on a party‑line vote before adjournment.
The committee delves into TANF eligibility caps, work incentives, and the impact on working families, then debates fraud scope, contractor and subgrantee abuses, alleged TANF ‘slush funds,’ and related enforcement and transparency amendments, most of which are rejected by the majority during markup.
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Members pivot to Education and Workforce integrity measures on child care subsidies and ‘ghost students’ before introducing the TANF bill, with majority members citing high‑profile fraud cases, GAO findings, and state misuse of funds, and minority members warning of vague mandates, weakened enforcement, and potential politicization of HHS authorities.
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The committee opens, sets the multi‑bill agenda, and conducts an extended debate on the FY27 Agriculture/FDA bill, focusing on WIC, SNAP, rural development, conservation, and Buy American provisions, with clear partisan divides over cuts, farm and rural supports, and nutrition policy trade‑offs.
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