Congressional Snapshot: Week of July 19, 2026

The Senate advanced a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill through procedural votes, setting up a final passage vote for next week, while the House passed a standalone measure to increase IRS funding by $80 billion over ten years. Across both chambers, 16 floor votes reflected ongoing partisan divisions on spending priorities and tax enforcement, with Republicans opposing the IRS expansion and Democrats blocking three GOP amendments to strip climate provisions from the infrastructure package.

🗳 Senate Floor Votes

The Senate held 7 roll call votes this week. Here is the full breakdown:

❌ Failed — 46 Yeas, 50 Nays (Jul 16)
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to “Medicare Program; Implementation of Prior Authorization for Select Services for the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model”.

✅ Passed — 49 Yeas, 48 Nays (Jul 16)
Kara Marie Westercamp, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade

✅ Passed — 51 Yeas, 46 Nays (Jul 15)
Jeffrey T. Kuntz, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida

✅ Passed — 50 Yeas, 46 Nays (Jul 14)
An original bill 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.

✅ Passed — 50 Yeas, 45 Nays (Jul 14)
Matthew A. Schwartz, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit

✅ Passed — 46 Yeas, 44 Nays (Jul 13)
Arthur Roberts Jones, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas

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🏛 House Floor Votes

The House held 9 roll-call votes this week. 2 passed, 7 failed.

ARMED FORCES AND NATIONAL SECURITYAdministrative remedies · Advisory bodies · Computers and information technology

❌ Failed — 210 Yeas, 211 Nays (Jul 16) Roll call →
Motion to Recommit — H R 9237: Take Care of America’s Veterans Act

ARMED FORCES AND NATIONAL SECURITY

✅ Passed — 418 Yeas, 0 Nays (Jul 16) Roll call →
Suspension of Rules — H R 5362: To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the “Colonel Michael H…