Constitution Index · H.Res. 1333 · 2026-06-03
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8646) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7726) to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to withhold funds from noncompliant States under such Act; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7892) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require to the Secretary of Education to use an identity fraud detection system to review each FAFSA to determine whether the FAFSA presents a reasonable suspicion of identity fraud; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8872) to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to target funds to low-income families, strengthen program integrity guardrails for State expenditure of funds, require measurement of improper payments, and establish goals for eliminating fraud and improper payments under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, and for other purposes.
Latest official status (2026-06-03): Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Constitutional grade
A
Constitutional
HRES 1333 is an internal House procedural rule authorized by Article I, Section 5, Clause 2. It takes no substantive action on spending, child care, student assistance, or family assistance, and therefore infringes no rights, restricts no individual, consolidates no power, and denies no due process. SI review finds it constitutional.
Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 Article I, Section 8 Amendment X Amendment IV Amendment V Amendment IX
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The five checks
Enumerated powers · passes
The House has explicit authority for this action under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2, which provides that each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings. HRES 1333 only provides for consideration of listed bills and sets debate structure. It does not itself appropriate funds or mandate state conduct, so no Article I, Section 8 analysis is failed at this procedural stage.
Bill of Rights · passes
This resolution creates no speech, religion, press, assembly, arms, search, trial, punishment, or other First through Tenth Amendment restriction. It only sets House floor procedures for considering H.R. 8646, H.R. 7726, H.R. 7892, and H.R. 8872. No search under the Fourth Amendment, no compelled testimony under the Fifth Amendment, and no other enumerated right is limited. Under SI review, no Bill of Rights provision is triggered.
Individual liberty · passes
The resolution restricts no personal conduct, belief, speech, labor, or use of property. It governs only how Members of the House will debate and vote. No individual is required or forbidden to do anything, so no justification burden under the Ninth Amendment and the liberty protected by the Fifth Amendment is triggered.
Decentralization · passes
The four-question test is applied to the actual action: an internal House scheduling rule. Individuals, counties, and states cannot set House floor debate rules, so the first three questions are answered no, but that does not show over-centralization because Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 reserves this exact function to the House itself. The resolution moves no substantive power upward to the federal level and leaves the underlying bills for later substantive review. It uses the minimum necessary level for its purpose.
Due process and takings · passes
No person is deprived of life, liberty, or property under the Fifth Amendment and no property is taken for public use. The resolution gives notice of floor consideration and preserves debate under House rules, satisfying procedural due process. It imposes no fine, penalty, forfeiture, or transfer of property requiring just compensation.
Provenance
- Congress.gov: HRES 1333 summary · fetched 2026-10-07 · official page ↗
Version history · never overwritten
| Grade | Graded | Rubric | Source hash | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A · #300 | 2026-10-08 | vfa-constitutional-grade/1.0 | f4b62a38b792 | current |
Cite this
Values for America. “Constitutional grade: H.Res. 1333, Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8646) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7726) to amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to withhold funds from noncompliant States under such Act; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7892) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require to the Secretary of Education to use an identity fraud detection system to review each FAFSA to determine whether the FAFSA presents a reasonable suspicion of identity fraud; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8872) to amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to target funds to low-income families, strengthen program integrity guardrails for State expenditure of funds, require measurement of improper payments, and establish goals for eliminating fraud and improper payments under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, and for other purposes..” VFA Constitution Index, grade 300 (rubric vfa-constitutional-grade/1.0), graded October 8, 2026. https://www.valuesforamerica.com/constitution-index/grades/300. Accessed 2026-10-19.
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