FY2027 Defense Authorization: How the House Voted on H.R. 8800

The House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 on July 22, 2026 by a vote of 216 to 212. 209 Republicans, 6 Democrats and 1 independent voted yea; 7 Republicans and 205 Democrats voted nay.

Before passage the House disposed of 19 recorded votes on amendments, 2 of which were agreed to by a single vote. This article sets out every roll call, what the governing rule directed, and the case each side's committee leader made in their own words.

What Happened

H.R. 8800 authorises appropriations and sets policy for Department of Defense and Department of Energy national security programs for fiscal year 2027, according to the Congress.gov bill record linked below.

It reached the floor under H.Res. 1438, adopted 214 to 211 on July 21, 2026 after the previous question was ordered 213 to 209. That rule governed six measures, H.R. 8800, H.R. 8884, H.R. 7008, H.R. 6955, H.R. 9770 and H. Con. Res. 113, so neither margin can be read as a count of support for H.R. 8800 alone. The same resolution directed that on engrossment the Clerk add the text of S. 1383, as passed by the House, as new matter at the end of H.R. 8800. S. 1383 was the vehicle by which the House passed the SAVE America Act, H.R. 7296, on Roll Call 69 on February 11, 2026; that measure would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Congress Vote Tracker has not reviewed the engrossed text as transmitted to the Senate. The resolution text, the texts of H.R. 8800 and H.R. 7296, and that roll call are linked below.

The House then took 19 recorded votes on amendments across July 21, 2026 and July 22, 2026, followed by a motion to recommit and final passage.

The motion to recommit, the minority's last procedural opportunity to send a bill back to committee under House Rule XIX, failed 213 to 216. The bill passed 216 to 212.

The Roll Call

The party breakdown on final passage, as published on the Clerk's roll-call page for Roll Call 278 and retrieved August 28, 2026:

Each party table accounts for 431 of the 435 House seats.

The party breakdown on the motion to recommit, from the Clerk's page for Roll Call 277, retrieved the same day:

The Amendments

Of the 19 amendments put to a recorded vote, 7 were agreed to and 12 failed. Every tally below is from the Clerk's record for that roll call.

Roll Calls 270 through 272 are absent from the table because they were recorded on other measures considered under the same rule, not on amendments to H.R. 8800.

Two amendments were agreed to by a single vote: Roll Call 260, Hunt of Texas Part A Amendment No. 7, at 215 to 214, and Roll Call 265, Crank of Colorado Part A Amendment No. 17, at 215 to 214. The closest to fail was Roll Call 269, McDowell of North Carolina Part A Amendment No. 26, at 214 to 216.

All 19 amendments that received a recorded vote were offered by Republican members. The Clerk's designation gives each sponsor's surname and state only; the party affiliations printed here are from this site's legislator records. The roll-call record does not show which amendments were made in order but disposed of without a recorded vote, or made in order and not offered; the full list of amendments made in order is in the House Rules Committee record, linked below.

Congress Vote Tracker records the tallies and the amendment designations as the Clerk publishes them.

The Case on Each Side

The committee's chairman and its ranking member each published a statement on the vote. Both are quoted below in their own words and both statements are linked in full.

Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) framed the bill as a readiness and industrial-base measure:

His statement credits the bill with what it describes as $30 billion in savings from “waste and fraud,” and with codifying more than 65 of the President's executive orders and legislative proposals.

Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) voted against, giving fiscal and procedural reasons:

His statement also objects to what it calls “toxic, partisan amendments” and to the amendment process, saying that no Democratic amendments were made in order to allow debate. It credits the bill on pay and compensation, housing, health care and childcare, and notes Democratic priorities that were included.

Both statements contain figures Congress Vote Tracker has not verified: $30 billion in savings and more than 65 codified executive orders and legislative proposals in the chairman's, a $1.6 trillion price tag and a 60 percent increase in the ranking member's. Congress Vote Tracker states no authorisation total of its own. Readers can compare each figure against the bill text, linked below.

What Happens Next

H.R. 8800 passed the House and goes to the Senate. A bill becomes law when both chambers pass identical text and the President signs it, or when Congress overrides a veto. Differences between the chambers' versions of a defense authorization are commonly resolved in conference.

Congress Vote Tracker records every roll call as the Clerk certifies it. You can follow this bill's complete vote history, or browse every recorded vote of the 119th Congress.