H.R. 6500 · 119th Congress · Economics and public finance
Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027
How each chamber voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Bundled: these votes covered more than one measure.
House · Sep 1, 2026
Roll call ↗370
48
The House’s vote on the final text.
Senate · Aug 8, 2026
Roll call ↗90
6
Passed the Senate.
One yes carried four divisions: the stopgap that kept the government open past September 30, the authorizing extensions, including African trade preferences through 2028 and customs fees to 2032, a highway and transit extension, and veterans program extensions. The House first passed H.R. 6500 on January 12, 340-54, as the AGOA Extension Act, which extended the African trade preferences and customs user fees. The Senate made it the continuing resolution, so at the final vote a member could not keep the government open without also voting for the trade and fee extensions, or the reverse.
Law 267 days after it was introduced
Public Law 119-103. Each step dated from the congress.gov record
- IntroducedDec 9, 2025
- CommitteeDec 30, 2025
- Passed HouseJan 12, 2026
- Passed SenateAug 8, 2026
- House final voteSep 1, 2026
- Became lawSep 2, 2026
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 1
- all Republican
- House committee
- Ways and Means
- Lobbying
- At least 158
- organizations named it2025 Q4 to 2026 Q3
What it does
Division A funds the federal government for fiscal year 2027 at fiscal year 2026 rates and under the same conditions, mostly through December 11, 2026, or until full-year appropriations for a program are enacted, if sooner.
How each member voted
The House roll call, vote on the final text, September 1, 2026
Yea unless marked
D · House · NC-12
R · House · AL-4
D · House · CA-33
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
Division A funds the federal government for fiscal year 2027 at fiscal year 2026 rates and under the same conditions, mostly through December 11, 2026, or until full-year appropriations for a program are enacted, if sooner. It bars using that money to start projects that were not funded in 2026, keeps mandatory payments, including food assistance under the Food and Nutrition Act, at current program levels, and adds program-specific exceptions, among them up to about $2.6 billion for cost increases on Navy ships funded in earlier years. It blocks the automatic cost-of-living pay adjustment for members of Congress for the period, pays $174,000 each to the widow of Representative David Scott and the heir of Senator Lindsey Graham, and bars a revision of the federal grant rules known as the Uniform Guidance from being issued or taking effect through December 11, 2026. Division B extends 16 expiring authorities, 13 of them to December 11, 2026, extends the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade preferences and the Haiti trade program from 2026 to 2028, extends customs user fees from December 31, 2031 to March 31, 2032, adds $21.4 million in Medicaid funding for the Northern Mariana Islands and trims the Medicare Improvement Fund by $21 million. Division C extends federal highway, transit and highway safety programs and the Highway Trust Fund's spending authority through December 11, 2026, with authorizations and obligation limits prorated from 2026 levels. Division D extends veterans health care, benefits and homeless veterans programs, most of them to December 11, 2026. The budgetary effects of Divisions B through D are kept off the pay-as-you-go scorecards.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 158 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 189 quarterly reports filed by 35 lobbying firms and by 92 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: American Apparel & Footwear Association; Travel Goods Association; Sasol Chemicals USA LLC (Through Harris Deville and Associates); Cintas; Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 153 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.