Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7006) making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.

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

This resolution is a procedural rule governing floor debate on an appropriations bill. It does not itself authorize any spending, restrict any right, or transfer power. It passes all five constitutional checks because it is a routine exercise of each chamber's Article I, Section 5 authority to determine the rules of its proceedings.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 grants each House of Congress the power to 'determine the Rules of its Proceedings.' A resolution providing for consideration of a bill is a textbook exercise of that enumerated power. No substantive authority is claimed beyond this procedural function.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The resolution does not regulate speech, press, assembly, religion, arms, searches, seizures, trials, punishments, or any other right protected by the first ten amendments. It is a purely procedural rule with no impact on individual liberties.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The resolution imposes no restriction on any person's person, property, speech, labor, or belief. It governs only the internal legislative process of the House of Representatives. Individual sovereignty is untouched.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The resolution governs only the internal proceedings of the House of Representatives. It does not involve individuals, families, local communities, or states in any way. The four-question test is inapplicable because the action is purely internal to a single branch of the federal government, and no consolidation of decision-making away from lower levels occurs.
• ✓ 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 imposes no penalty, fine, or forfeiture. Due process and takings clauses are not implicated.

Sources: Congress.gov: HRES 992 summary