The House Passed All Four Bills Before Recess. Here's the Scoreboard - and the SAVE Act Election Provisions Now Ride Three of Them.

NDAA 216-212. Funding bill 220-205. Reconciliation blueprint 216-214. Stock 'ban' 232-198. Four narrow votes cleared the pre-recess package Wednesday - carrying a defense-bill renaming, a shutdown cliff moved past the midterms, a $95 billion war-and-priorities blueprint, and a stock ban that grandfathers the stocks. The connective tissue is the SAVE Act's proof-of-citizenship regime, now written into three of the four.

Four bills, one day, four narrow margins. The House cleared its pre-recess package Wednesday, and the tallies are worth reading together, because what rode inside each is the actual story.

The defense bill went first. The FY27 National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 8800, passed 216 to 212 - Roll Call 278 [1]. It carries the SAVE Act's election provisions, a renaming of the Department of Defense to the 'Department of War,' and a US-Israel research and intelligence-sharing section the Rules Committee blocked members from voting to strip - a fight Rep. Ro Khanna said now moves to conference [1]. Six Democrats voted yes; seven Republicans, Thomas Massie and Chip Roy among them, voted no [1].

The funding bill moved the calendar. The continuing resolution keeping the government open through December 4 passed 220 to 205, with Massie the only Republican opposed [2]. December 4 is the operative detail: it places the next shutdown deadline on the far side of the November midterms [2]. Speaker Johnson said Democrats would 'own the chaos'; Rep. Rosa DeLauro called it a 'one-sided stopgap' [2].

The blueprint set up the war money. Reconciliation 3.0 - $95 billion, comprising $73 billion in Iran war funding, $12 billion in farm aid, and a $10 billion SAVE incentive fund - passed 216 to 214, and it is only a first step the Senate must still adopt [1].

The stock bill was the one with the friendliest headline and the most fine print. H.R. 7008 passed 232 to 198 [3]. It bars members from buying new individual stocks while grandfathering everything they already hold, requires only a week or two of pre-sale notice, exempts the President and Vice President, mandates no blind trusts, and carries a federal voter-ID rider [3]. Rep. Seth Magaziner's verdict: 'It's a terrible bill. It doesn't ban stock trading in Congress' [3].

The through-line is the SAVE Act, whose proof-of-citizenship provisions now sit in three of the four bills, all headed for a Senate where each faces a 60-vote wall [1][3]. One honest sourcing note on a day made of numbers: the NDAA's roll call is confirmed against the House Clerk; the other three tallies are as reported by outlets that covered the floor, because the Clerk's vote pages were unreachable at publication [1][2][3].

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The House Passed All Four Bills Before Recess. Here's the Scoreboard - and the SAVE Act Election Provisions Now Ride Three of Them.

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