Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7148) making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7147) making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.

SI-generated grade · five published checks · not individually reviewed by a person · methodology

This resolution is a procedural rule for considering two appropriations bills. It does not itself authorize any substantive policy, spending, or rights restriction. As a routine exercise of Congress's constitutional authority to determine its own rules and procedures, it passes all five checks without constitutional concern.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 grants each House of Congress the power to 'determine the Rules of its Proceedings.' This resolution is a procedural rule for considering appropriations bills, which falls squarely within that enumerated power. It does not purport to exercise any power beyond what the Constitution grants to Congress.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  This resolution is purely procedural and does not restrict speech, religion, press, assembly, petition, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial rights, jury rights, or cruel and unusual punishment. It does not infringe any provision of the first ten amendments.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The resolution imposes no restriction on any individual's person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It merely sets the terms for floor debate and voting on two appropriations bills. No compelling justification is needed because no individual sovereignty is burdened.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The resolution is a procedural action by Congress, the federal legislative body, concerning federal appropriations. The four-question test is designed for substantive policy actions, not internal legislative procedure. However, applying it: (1) an individual cannot handle federal appropriations; (2) a local community cannot; (3) a state cannot; (4) this does not consolidate decision-making upward …
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The resolution does not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, nor does it take private property for public use. It is a procedural rule for legislative consideration and does not implicate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process or Takings Clauses.

Sources: Congress.gov: HRES 1014 summary