NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027

On 2026-07-21, Representative Luz M. Rivas (D-CA-29) delivered a floor speech titled "NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027" in the House.

NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 119 (Tuesday, July 21, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 21, 2026)] [House] [Pages H5008-H5018] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1438 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, H.R. 8800. Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Weber) kindly take the chair. {time} 2031 In the Committee of the Whole Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill (H.R. 8800) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, with Mr. Weber (Acting Chair) in the chair. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, a request for a recorded vote on amendment No. 26 printed in part A of House Report 119-755 offered by the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McDowell), had been postponed. Announcement by the Chair The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in part A of House Report 119-755 on which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order: Amendment No. 1 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 2 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 3 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 4 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 6 by Mr. Hunt of Texas. Amendment No. 7 by Mr. Hunt of Texas. Amendment No. 8 by Mr. Gallagher of California. Amendment No. 9 by Mr. Carter of Georgia. Amendment No. 14 by Mr. Crane of Arizona. Amendment No. 15 by Mr. Crane of Arizona. Amendment No. 17 by Mr. Crank of Colorado. Amendment No. 18 by Ms. Boebert of Colorado. Amendment No. 19 by Ms. Mace of South Carolina. Amendment No. 20 by Ms. Mace of South Carolina. Amendment No. 26 by Mr. McDowell of North Carolina. The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. Amendment No. 1 Offered by Ms. Boebert The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Boebert) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 15-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 65, noes 361, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 255] AYES--65 Balderson Bean (FL) Begich Biggs (SC) Boebert Brecheen Burchett Burlison Cammack Ciscomani Cline Cloud Collins Comer Crane Crenshaw Davidson Donalds Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Fry Fulcher Fuller Gill (TX) Griffith Grothman Hageman Hamadeh (AZ) Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Higgins (LA) Houchin Hunt Jordan Joyce (PA) Kennedy (UT) Knott Loudermilk Luna Luttrell Mace Massie McDowell McGuire Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Mills Moore (AL) Moore (WV) Norman Ogles Patronis Perry Rose Roy Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Spartz Steube Tiffany Van Drew Wied NOES--361 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balint Barr Barragan Barrett Baumgartner Beatty Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Bilirakis Bishop Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Bynum Calvert Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crank Crawford Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Downing Dunn (FL) Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Emmer Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Feenstra Fields Figures Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Gallagher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gottheimer Graves Gray Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Guest Guthrie Harder (CA) Haridopolos Harrigan Hayes Hern (OK) Hernandez Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Joyce (OH) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim King-Hinds Krishnamoorthi Kustoff LaHood LaLota Landsman Langworthy Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latimer Latta Lawler Lee (FL) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Letlow Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Lucas Lynch Mackenzie Magaziner Malliotakis Maloy Mann Mannion Mast Matsui McBath McBride McCaul McClain McClain Delaney McClellan McClintock McCollum McCormick McDonald Rivet McGarvey McGovern McIver Meeks Mejia Menefee Menendez Meng Messmer Meuser Mfume Miller (WV) Miller-Meeks Min Moolenaar Moore (NC) Moore (UT) Moore (WI) Moran Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Moylan Mrvan Mullin Murphy Nadler Neal Neguse Nehls Newhouse Norcross Norton Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Onder Owens Pallone Palmer Panetta Pappas Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pfluger Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Reschenthaler Riley (NY) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Ross Rouzer Ruiz Rulli Rutherford Ryan Salazar Salinas Sanchez Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schmidt Schneider Scholten Schrier Scott (VA) Sessions Sewell Sherman Shreve Simon Simpson Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Smucker Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stauber Stefanik Steil Stevens Strickland Strong Stutzman Subramanyam Suozzi Sykes Takano Taylor Tenney Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Timmons Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Tran Turner (OH) Underwood Valadao Van Duyne Van Epps Van Orden Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Vindman Wagner Walberg Walkinshaw Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Westerman Whitesides Williams (GA) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Womack Yakym NOT VOTING--10 Biggs (AZ) Clyde Fine Gosar Plaskett Radewagen Rivas Wilson (FL) Wittman Zinke [[Page H5009]] {time} 2102 Messrs. BRESNAHAN, WEBSTER of Florida, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Messrs. McCAUL, SHREVE, PALMER, and HUIZENGA changed their vote from ``aye'' to ``no.'' Messrs. CLOUD, JOYCE of Pennsylvania, HAMADEH of Arizona, ROSE, LUTTRELL, BALDERSON, CISCOMANI, and McGUIRE changed their vote from ``no'' to ``aye.'' So the amendment was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Ms. Boebert The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on amendment No. 2, printed in part A of House Report 119-755, offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. Boebert), on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 61, noes 360, not voting 15, as follows: [Roll No. 256] AYES--61 Balderson Barrett Bean (FL) Begich Biggs (SC) Boebert Brecheen Burchett Cammack Cline Cloud Collins Comer Crane Davidson Donalds Downing Emmer Fedorchak Fischbach Fitzgerald Fry Fulcher Fuller Griffith Hageman Haridopolos Harris (MD) Harris (NC) Harshbarger Houchin Joyce (PA) Kennedy (UT) Langworthy Luna Mace Mann Massie McClintock McGuire Miller (IL) Mills Moore (AL) Moore (NC) Moore (WV) Nehls Norman Ogles Onder Patronis Perry Roy Rulli Self Spartz Stefanik Steube Taylor Tiffany Webster (FL) Wied NOES--360 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Alford Allen Amo Amodei (NV) Ansari Arrington Auchincloss Babin Bacon Baird Balint Barr Barragan Baumgartner Beatty Bell Bentz Bera Bergman Beyer Bice Bilirakis Bishop Bonamici Bost Boyle (PA) Bresnahan Brown Brownley Buchanan Budzinski Bynum Calvert Carbajal Carey Carson Carter (GA) Carter (LA) Carter (TX) Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Ciscomani Cisneros Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Cole Conaway Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crank Crawford Crenshaw Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Davis (NC) De La Cruz Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier DesJarlais Dexter Diaz-Balart Dingell Doggett Dunn (FL) Edwards Elfreth Ellzey Escobar Espaillat Estes Evans (CO) Evans (PA) Ezell Fallon Feenstra Fields Figures Finstad Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Flood Fong Foster Foushee Foxx Frankel, Lois Franklin, Scott Friedman Frost Gallagher Garamendi Garbarino Garcia (CA) Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Gillen Gimenez Golden (ME) Goldman (NY) Goldman (TX) Gomez Gonzalez, V. Gooden Goodlander Gottheimer Graves Gray Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Guest Guthrie Hamadeh (AZ) Harder (CA) Harrigan Hayes Hern (OK) Hernandez Higgins (LA) Hill (AR) Himes Hinson Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Hudson Huffman Huizenga Hunt Hurd (CO) Issa Ivey Jack Jackson (IL) Jackson (TX) Jacobs James Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (SD) Johnson (TX) Jordan Joyce (OH) Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Kean Keating Kelly (IL) Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kennedy (NY) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kiley (CA) Kim King-Hinds Knott Krishna

Referenced legislation: HRES1438, HRES1438, HR8800