Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7295 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7295 To establish comprehensive, annual congressional budgeting. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 30, 2026 Mr. Moore of Utah (for himself and Mr. Hurd of Colorado) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To establish comprehensive, annual congressional budgeting. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Federal deficits and debt are projected to keep growing at unsustainable rates. (2) Congress does not consider a comprehensive budget with all spending and revenue at the level of spending accounts and revenue line items. (3) The number of Federal spending accounts has grown from 1,734 in March 2009 to 1,970 in January 2025. (4) The annual Congressional budget cycle separates appropriations legislation from the management of direct spending and revenue policies. (5) Annual appropriations advance each year, but they have declined from 50 percent of Federal spending in 1974 to 26 percent in 2025. The decline is expected to continue. (6) Congress has not enacted all appropriations bills prior to the start of the fiscal year since 1996 for fiscal year 1997. (7) Members have little opportunity to offer substantive amendments on budget and appropriations legislation during floor consideration