Congressional Record — August 7, 2026

Overview of the day

The daily legislative digest and floor proceedings for the Senate on August 7, 2026, encompassed a broad range of legislative actions, committee activities, executive business, and floor votes. The Senate addressed major budgetary measures, foreign policy sanctions, executive nominations, and various domestic policy bills. Key actions included the passage of major legislation such as H.R. 5334 and H.R. 6500, alongside extensive executive nominations confirmations and committee discharges.

Summary of the House proceedings

There was no House activity on this date

Summary of Senate proceedings

(Public Law 107-42) H.R. 5334 had 2 amendments proposed to it.
(Public Law 107-42) H.R. 5334 was passed by the Senate by a vote of 86 yeas to 11 nays, imposing sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation and Iran.
H.R. 2069 was passed by the Senate, amending the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure that other transaction agreements are reported to USAspending.gov.
H.R. 5366 was passed by the Senate, amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to codify and extend the rules for personal casualty losses arising from major disasters and the rules for the exclusion from gross income of compensation for losses or damages resulting from certain wildfires.
S. 2542 was passed by the Senate, directing the Director of the Federal Protective Service to establish guidance relating to emergency protocols for buildings, after agreeing to a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
S. 3897 was passed by the Senate, revising administrative procedures relating to public safety officers' death benefits, after agreeing to an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
S. 4850 was passed by the Senate, amending title 28, United States Code, to adjust thresholds relating to jurisdiction for inflation.
S. 1525 was passed by the Senate, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to stop minting the penny and requiring cash transactions to be rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents, after agreeing to an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
S. 2677 was passed by the Senate, expanding the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade, after agreeing to an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
H.R. 2196 was passed by the Senate, providing for an extension of the legislative authority of the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs.
H.R. 1276 was passed by the Senate, removing restrictions from a parcel of land in Paducah, Kentucky.
S. Res. 815 was agreed to, commending the Chicago Cubs baseball teams as it celebrates its 150th anniversary on August 29, 2026, after agreeing to an amendment to the preamble.
S. Res. 820 was agreed to, designating August 7, 2026, as National Lighthouse Day.
S. Res. 843 was agreed to, expressing support for the designation of the first week of August 2026, as National Community Health Center Week.
S. Res. 844 was agreed to, honoring the lives and service of Emily Barker, Nicholas Hutcherson, Sydney Watson, Nathan Matthews, Nicholas Dale, and all those who serve on the front lines of wildland firefighting efforts in the United States.
S. Res. 845 was agreed to, designating September 2026 as National Child Awareness Month.
S. Res. 846 was agreed to, designating August 21, 2026, as Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day.
H.R. 6500 had 7 amendments and 1 motion to commit proposed to it.
H.R. 6500 was passed by the Senate by a vote of 90 yeas to 6 nays, making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2027, after agreeing to a substitute amendment and disposing of other amendments.
S. 5271 had a motion to proceed rejected by the Senate by a vote of 52 yeas to 46 nays, failing to achieve the three-fifths threshold required to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill requiring voters to provide photo identification.
H.R. 3633 had a motion to proceed presented, with a cloture vote scheduled for September 15, 2026, relating to the regulation of digital commodities.
S. 4668 had a unanimous-consent agreement reached for a future cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the Protect College Sports Act of 2026.
H. Con. Res. 89 had a unanimous-consent-time agreement reached to discharge the concurrent resolution from the Committee on Foreign Relations and consider it no later than October 2, 2026, relating to the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
S. 3897 had 74 executive nominations confirmed en bloc following the adoption of S. Res. 817.
Todd Blanche, of Florida, was confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General by a vote of 50 yeas to 49 nays.
Matthew R. Byrne, of Ohio, had a cloture motion entered on his nomination to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, with a vote scheduled for September 14, 2026.