We need to immediately return to regular business where Congress is deliberating and passing 12 separate appropriations bills through the committee process, considered under an open rule on the floor which allows for amendments to be considered, and those appropriations bills need to be sent to the President for signature.
Restore regular order in Congress by passing 12 separate appropriations bills through committee, open floor rules, amendments, and presidential signature.
Occurrences
So whether you're a Democrat or whether you're the Republican, they need to get back to regular order where members can go into committee, where they're experts, and talk about these issues... We need to follow that and get back to that. And I'll hold Republican leadership accountable to that and I'll hold Democrat leadership accountable to that.
Evidence
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Date Approved: March 15, 2025. Full Title: An act making further continuing appropriations and other extensions for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes. Bill Number: H.R. 1968.
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Division A was titled Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025. Section 1101 appropriated amounts under the authority and conditions provided in applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2024, listing the 12 FY2024 appropriations acts by reference.
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Vote Question: On Passage. Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025. Status: Passed. Yeas 217, Nays 213. Crank, Republican, Colorado, voted Yea.
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Date Approved: November 12, 2025. Full Title: An act making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes. Bill Number: H.R. 5371.
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The table of contents lists Division A--Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026; Division B--Agriculture; Division C--Legislative Branch; and Division D--Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026. Section 106 made continuing appropriations available until January 30, 2026.
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Short Title: Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026. Full Title: An Act Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
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The table of contents lists Division A--Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Division B--Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies; and Division C--Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026.
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Short Title: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026. Full Title: An Act Making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
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The table of contents lists appropriations divisions for Defense; Labor, HHS, and Education; Transportation-HUD; Financial Services and General Government; National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs; plus Division H--Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
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CRS noted H.R. 5371 (P.L. 119-37) and stated that FY2026 continuing appropriations for the remaining nine appropriations bills were provided through January 30, 2026. The notes also state H.R. 5371 included regular appropriations for Agriculture, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction-VA.
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House Appropriations Republicans said all twelve FY27 appropriations bills had advanced through full committee and three had passed the House floor, but the committee was introducing a Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027 to extend funding through December 4, 2026 while work continued.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 272 on H.R. 9770 as passage of a bill making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2027. The bill passed 220-205, and Jeff Crank of Colorado voted Yea.
Assessments
Crank’s first House term showed some movement toward regular order, especially FY2027 committee advancement of all 12 appropriations bills and limited House floor passage. But the core promise required 12 separate appropriations bills to proceed through committee, open floor rules, amendments, and presidential signature. The record instead shows FY2025 funded through a full-year continuing appropriations law, FY2026 enacted through consolidated/mixed packages with continuing appropriations, and FY2027 still relying on a continuing appropriations vehicle while work continued. Crank’s documented vote for a continuing resolution does not itself deliver or materially complete the pledged regular-order outcome.
Not delivered in full. During Crank's same House term, FY2025 was funded through a full-year continuing appropriations law rather than 12 separate regular appropriations bills, and FY2026 appropriations were enacted through consolidated packages with continuing appropriations for Homeland Security, not as 12 separate bills passed through regular order and signed individually. Some regular appropriations components did move through committee and become law within consolidated measures, so partial credit is appropriate, but there is no evidence that Crank personally sponsored or materially advanced a serious regular-order reform attempt beyond voting on the funding vehicles.