H.R. 8595 Passed the House 217 to 209 After Four Failed Amendments

The House passed H.R. 8595, the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027, 217 to 209 on July 15, 2026, on Roll Call 247. This site's records show six roll calls on the bill, all the same day: four on amendments, every one of which failed, then a motion to recommit that also failed, then passage.

What Happened

H.R. 8595 is one of the annual appropriations bills, the measures that set spending for a fiscal year. Its full title, as it appears in the Congress.gov record linked below, is the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027. The House took it up on July 15, 2026 and disposed of it the same day.

Six roll calls on the bill appear in this site's records. Four were on amendments, all rejected. The fifth was a motion to recommit, which asks the House to send the measure back to committee; it failed 209 to 216 on Roll Call 246. The sixth was passage, which carried 217 to 209 on Roll Call 247.

This site's House record covers roll calls from July 15, 2026 to July 23, 2026, beginning at Roll Call 242, the first of the six. Any earlier roll call on H.R. 8595, including any vote on a rule providing for its consideration, would carry a lower number and falls outside that range, as would any House action on the bill after July 23, 2026.

The Amendments

Four amendments received a recorded vote. All four failed. For each, the table gives the roll-call number; the Clerk's own designation, which names the sponsor by surname and state; the sponsor's party; the yea and nay tallies; and the result.

Sponsors, designations and per-party figures as recorded in the Clerk's electronic vote record for each of the four amendment roll calls, linked below, retrieved August 28, 2026. The Clerk's designation gives each sponsor's surname and state only; the full names, district numbers and party affiliation printed here for Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL-6), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY-4) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX-21), and the count of members representing the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories, are from this site's legislator records.

All four amendments that reached a recorded vote were offered by Republicans. That is a description of this roll-call record, not of the amendment process: amendments never made in order, made in order but never offered, or disposed of by voice vote leave no roll-call entry, and this is therefore not a list of the amendments offered or made in order on the bill.

Each of the four is set out below with its full party breakdown. Measured by the gap between a party's yeas and its nays, the narrowest division within either major party was on Roll Call 243, where Democrats voted 103 to 98; the next narrowest was on Roll Call 245, where Republicans voted 136 to 80.

Roll Call 242, Fine of Florida's Part A Amendment No. 6, failed 178 to 247. The yes column held 176 Republicans and 2 Democrats; the no column held 38 Republicans, 208 Democrats and 1 independent. Counting yea, nay, present and not voting, among the Republicans recorded, 176 voted yes, 38 no and 6 not voting, among the Democrats recorded, 2 voted yes, 208 no and 5 not voting, and the one independent voted no.

Roll Call 243, Massie of Kentucky's Part A Amendment No. 8, failed 104 to 314. The yes column held 1 Republican and 103 Democrats; the no column held 215 Republicans, 98 Democrats and 1 independent. Counting yea, nay, present and not voting, among the Republicans recorded, 1 voted yes, 215 no and 5 not voting, among the Democrats recorded, 103 voted yes, 98 no, 10 present and 4 not voting, and the one independent voted no.

Roll Call 244, Massie of Kentucky's Part A Amendment No. 9, failed 6 to 421. The yes column held 6 Republicans; the no column held 209 Republicans, 211 Democrats and 1 independent. Counting yea, nay, present and not voting, among the Republicans recorded, 6 voted yes, 209 no and 6 not voting, among the Democrats recorded, 0 voted yes, 211 no and 4 not voting, and the one independent voted no.

Roll Call 245, Roy of Texas's Part A Amendment No. 20, failed 136 to 291. The yes column held 136 Republicans; the no column held 80 Republicans, 210 Democrats and 1 independent. Counting yea, nay, present and not voting, among the Republicans recorded, 136 voted yes, 80 no and 4 not voting, among the Democrats recorded, 0 voted yes, 210 no and 5 not voting, and the one independent voted no.

The Clerk's per-member records for the amendment roll calls include members representing the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories, who do not appear in the records for the motion to recommit or for passage. Six such members sit in this Congress, representing American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The per-party rows account for 437 members on Roll Calls 243 and 244, 436 on Roll Calls 242 and 245, and 431 on the motion to recommit and on passage. All six appear in the per-member record for each of the four amendment roll calls. On Roll Calls 242 and 245 one Republican member who is not one of those six does not appear in that record at all, which is the difference between 437 and 436. The Clerk's record gives no reason for a member's absence from it.

The Motion to Recommit

Before the final vote the House considered a motion to recommit, which failed 209 to 216 on Roll Call 246. The yes column held 209 Democrats; the no column held 215 Republicans and 1 independent.

Party breakdown for Roll Call 246, from the Office of the Clerk, retrieved August 28, 2026. The four columns sum to 431.

The Passage Vote

H.R. 8595 passed 217 to 209 on Roll Call 247. The yes column held 215 Republicans, 1 Democrat and 1 independent; the no column held 1 Republican and 208 Democrats.

Party breakdown for Roll Call 247, from the Office of the Clerk, retrieved August 28, 2026. The four columns sum to 431.

What Happens Next

Passage in the House is one step. An appropriations bill must also pass the Senate and be enacted into law, whether signed by the President, allowed to become law without signature, or passed over a veto, before it takes effect. This site's Senate vote window, which covers June 24, 2026 to August 8, 2026, holds no recorded vote on H.R. 8595. The bill's current status is on its Congress.gov page, and this site's bill page for H.R. 8595 lists the roll calls it holds.

Every tally on this page is the figure the Office of the Clerk published for that roll call, and every roll call is linked in the sources below. The party breakdowns are the Clerk's own per-party totals; the column sums are this site's arithmetic on them.