H.R. 8029 · 119th Congress · Economics and public finance
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Bundled: this vote covered more than one measure.
House · Mar 26, 2026
Roll call ↗218
206
Passed the House.
The short title, Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act, understates the reach. Division A is the full DHS budget with dozens of policy riders, and Division B is a Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act that closes out an appropriations lapse. A single yes also funded items with no homeland-security connection: $30,000,000 for the Supreme Court and $140,000,000 for FAA air traffic controller raises. Those non-DHS appropriations and the continuing-appropriations division are the coupling points. The text is functionally the same DHS measure as H.R. 7744.
Passed the House on March 26, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate
- IntroducedMar 20, 2026
- CommitteeMar 20, 2026
- Passed HouseMar 26, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- None
- House committees
- AppropriationsBudget
- Lobbying
- At least 8
- organizations named it2026 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The act funds the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, March 26, 2026
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The act funds the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. Division A provides the component budgets, including $17,727,974,000 for Customs and Border Protection operations and support, $10,036,362,000 for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and support, $10,635,434,000 for the Transportation Security Administration, $11,272,401,000 for the Coast Guard, $3,128,304,000 for the Secret Service, $2,218,634,000 for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and $26,367,000,000 for the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund. It also sets policy: $20,000,000 for body-worn cameras on immigration enforcement officers, a bar on any new border-crossing fee at land ports of entry, a rule that members of Congress and senior officials are not exempt from passenger and baggage screening, limits on restraining pregnant women in DHS custody, and protection for congressional access to detention facilities for oversight. Two provisions reach outside DHS: $30,000,000 more for the Supreme Court and $140,000,000 for a 3.8 percent 2026 pay increase for FAA air traffic controllers that takes effect only if the FAA Administrator finds the operational efficiencies Section 549 requires. Division B ratifies obligations incurred during the appropriations lapse that began on or about February 13, 2026.
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 8 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 16 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 5 organizations lobbying for themselves in 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: National Treasury Employees Union; Defenders of Wildlife; American Association of Airport Executives; Battelle Memorial Institute; Reinsurance Assn of America. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 3 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.