FY2027 Stopgap Funding: House 220 to 205, Senate 90 to 6

This site's records show five roll-call votes on the two fiscal 2027 stopgap funding bills themselves between July 21, 2026 and August 8, 2026. They were not five votes on one bill. The House passed H.R. 9770, 220 to 205. In a separate set of votes weeks later, the Senate passed H.R. 6500, 90 to 6.

What Happened

A continuing resolution keeps federal agencies funded when Congress has not finished its regular appropriations bills. Two such measures drew recorded votes in this period, one in each chamber.

The earlier of the two in date order was the House vote. On July 21, 2026 the House passed H.R. 9770, "Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes," by 220 to 205 on Roll Call 272. The four Senate roll calls on fiscal 2027 stopgap funding in this site's data came between August 3, 2026 and August 8, 2026, and all four were on a different bill, H.R. 6500, "An act making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes." The Senate passed it 90 to 6 on Vote 228, a vote the Senate's record heads "H.R. 6500, as amended." No recorded vote adopting an amendment to H.R. 6500 appears in this site's data; the four Senate roll calls it holds on the bill are the two cloture motions, the motion to table, and passage.

Both are continuing appropriations measures for fiscal year 2027, according to the bill titles in the roll-call records. This page reports the votes on each and does not assert any procedural relationship between them beyond that shared subject. A party breakdown appears below for every one of the five roll calls.

The House Vote

H.R. 9770 passed the House 220 to 205 on July 21, 2026, on Roll Call 272. The yes column held 213 Republicans, 6 Democrats and 1 independent; the no column held 1 Republican and 204 Democrats.

Party breakdown for Roll Call 272, from the Office of the Clerk, retrieved August 28, 2026. The four columns sum to 431 of the 435 House seats.

Two further House roll calls that day bear on how the bill reached the floor. H.Res. 1438 provided for the consideration of five bills, H.R. 9770 among them, and of H. Con. Res. 113. The House ordered the previous question on it 213 to 209 on Roll Call 253 and adopted it 214 to 211 on Roll Call 254. The resolution governed six measures, so neither margin can be read as a count of support for H.R. 9770 alone. They are votes on the rule rather than on either funding bill, which is why they are not counted among the five above.

The yes column on Roll Call 253 held 212 Republicans and 1 independent; the no column held 209 Democrats. On Roll Call 254 the yes column held 213 Republicans and 1 independent; the no column held 1 Republican and 210 Democrats.

Party breakdown for Roll Call 253, from the Office of the Clerk, retrieved August 29, 2026. The four columns sum to 431 of the 435 House seats.

Party breakdown for Roll Call 254, from the Office of the Clerk, retrieved August 29, 2026. The four columns sum to 431 of the 435 House seats.

The Senate's Four Votes on H.R. 6500

Three of the four Senate roll calls on H.R. 6500 in this site's data preceded passage: two cloture motions and one motion to table an amendment.

Cloture on the motion to proceed carried 89 to 4 on Vote 218. The yes column held 49 Republicans, 39 Democrats and 1 independent; the no column held 1 Republican, 2 Democrats and 1 independent.

Party breakdown for Senate Vote 218, tallied from the per-member records the Senate publishes for that vote, retrieved August 29, 2026. 100 senators are accounted for across all four columns.

Cloture on the amendment offered by Sen. Susan M. Collins (R-ME), numbered 6732, which the Senate's record describes as "In the nature of a substitute," carried 91 to 6 on Vote 226. The yes column held 48 Republicans, 42 Democrats and 1 independent; the no column held 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats and 1 independent.

Party breakdown for Senate Vote 226, tallied from the per-member records the Senate publishes for that vote, retrieved August 29, 2026. Party and state for the senators named on this page, Sen. Susan M. Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), are from this site's legislator records. 100 senators are accounted for across all four columns.

Passage came on August 8, 2026 by 90 to 6 on Vote 228. The yes column held 47 Republicans, 42 Democrats and 1 independent; the no column held 2 Republicans, 3 Democrats and 1 independent.

Party breakdown for Senate Vote 228, tallied from the per-member records the Senate publishes for that vote, retrieved August 29, 2026. 100 senators are accounted for across all four columns.

Vote 227: The Motion to Table Budd Amendment No. 6747

Vote 227 was a motion to table an amendment offered by Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), numbered 6747, which the Senate's record describes as "To strike section 2019." The Senate's record identifies the target only as "section 2019"; this page does not summarize what that provision does. Tabling an amendment disposes of it without a vote on its substance, so a yes on this motion was a vote to set the amendment aside.

The motion carried 61 to 32 on Vote 227. For comparison, the other three Senate votes on the bill were 89 – 4, 91 – 6 and 90 – 6.

Party breakdown for Senate Vote 227, tallied from the per-member records the Senate publishes for that vote, retrieved August 29, 2026. 100 senators are accounted for across all four columns.

The votes to table came from 26 Republicans, 34 Democrats and 1 independent; the votes against tabling came from 21 Republicans and 11 Democrats.

What This Record Does and Does Not Show

This site's vote window covers House roll calls from July 15, 2026 to July 23, 2026, and Senate votes from June 24, 2026 to August 8, 2026. Within those dates the Senate recorded no vote on H.R. 9770, and the House recorded no vote on H.R. 6500.

The two absences are not equally informative. The Senate range runs from June 24, 2026 to August 8, 2026, so it covers July 21, 2026, the day the House passed H.R. 9770, and the weeks after it; within that span this site's data records no Senate roll call on the bill. The House range is nine days, July 15, 2026 to July 23, 2026. Any House action on H.R. 6500 outside those nine days leaves no entry in this record, so the absence of a House roll call on it inside that range shows only that the House recorded none in those nine days; it says nothing about any other date. The date of any House action on the bill is on its Congress.gov page, linked below.

Neither absence is evidence about why either chamber acted as it did, or about what any member or chamber intended. This page covers only roll calls inside those windows, and the Congress.gov records for H.R. 9770 and H.R. 6500 list each bill's full set of actions. This site's own bill pages state the same limit: within the data each page holds, the page for H.R. 6500 records no House floor vote and the page for H.R. 9770 records no Senate floor vote.

Nor does either passage vote mean a bill has become law. Chamber passage is one step, and both bill pages state that limit as well.

What Happens Next

The Senate passed H.R. 6500 on August 8, 2026, on a vote the Senate's record heads "H.R. 6500, as amended"; this site's data, whose House window closes July 23, 2026, records no House vote on it. The House passed H.R. 9770 on July 21, 2026; this site's Senate window runs through August 8, 2026 and so covers the weeks after that vote, and within it this site's data records no Senate vote on the bill. A measure must pass both chambers in identical form before it can be presented to the President, and when one chamber amends the other chamber's bill the measure returns to the originating chamber, which may agree to the amendments, amend them further, seek a conference, or take no further action. What either chamber has done with either bill after this site's windows close, July 23, 2026 for the House and August 8, 2026 for the Senate, is outside this site's data. The current status of both measures is on their Congress.gov pages, linked in the sources below.

Each roll-call total on this page is the tally the House Clerk or the Senate published for that vote, and each roll call is linked at its first mention and again in the sources below. The House party breakdowns are the Clerk's own per-party totals, retrieved on the dates given under each table. The Senate party breakdowns are tallied by this site from the per-member records the Senate publishes, on August 29, 2026. Column sums and vote counts are this site's arithmetic on those figures.