Constitution Index · H.Res. 518 · 2025-06-17

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2913) to authorize support for Ukraine, and for other purposes.

Latest official status (2026-06-04): Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

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Constitutional grade

A

Constitutional

HRES 518 is an internal House procedural rule authorized by Article I, Section 5, Clause 2. It spends nothing, mandates nothing for the public, infringes no rights, and consolidates no power. Constitutionally sound SI legislative procedure.

Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 Amendment I Amendment IV Amendment X Amendment V

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Enumerated powers · passes

The House has explicit authority under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 providing that Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings. Setting terms for consideration of H.R. 2913 and directing the Clerk to transmit a message is a direct exercise of that rulemaking power, not an assertion of unenumerated federal power.

Bill of Rights · passes

This resolution creates no restriction on speech, religion, press, assembly, arms, searches, trial rights, or other protections in Amendments 1-10. It only sets House floor procedure for considering H.R. 2913 and directs transmittal to the Senate. No First Amendment or Fourth Amendment or other Bill of Rights interest is implicated.

Individual liberty · passes

The resolution restricts no personal conduct, property use, speech, labor, belief, or travel. It governs only internal legislative scheduling and transmittal. The government bears no burden to justify a restriction here because none is imposed on any person outside Congress.

Decentralization · passes

Regulation of House floor procedure is inherently a House function under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2. (1) No individual or family can set House debate rules. (2) No county or locality can do so. (3) No state can do so. (4) It does not consolidate power upward to the executive, the judiciary, or a federal agency, nor to the federal level from the states, because control of House proceedings already resides at that minimum necessary level. No Tenth Amendment violation.

Due process and takings · passes

No deprivation of life, liberty, or property and no taking occurs under the Fifth Amendment Due Process and Takings Clauses. No criminal charge, seizure, fine, or property transfer is ordered. Notice is provided by the published resolution and House vote, satisfying procedural regularity.

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