# H.Res. 682 (119th): This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R

This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 3838) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 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, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3486) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase penalties for individuals who illegally enter and reenter the United States after being removed, and for other purposes.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: appropriations. Category: corruption_stewardship. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: immigration_enforcement. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: procedural. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: war_funding. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 242: On Ordering the Previous Question. Vote type: procedural.
Roll 243: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The resolution is procedural and carries no direct moral harm, but the bills it brings forward combine ordinary prudential governance (defense authorization and enforcement penalties) with real concerns about the scale of military spending and the proportionality of criminal penalties. The metadata is sufficient to classify it as mixed rather than unclear.
Theological note: Scripture grants civil authorities a limited duty to bear the sword for public order and the defense of the innocent, so defense funding and border or immigration enforcement are matters of lawful civil stewardship that can be weighed under general equity. Questions of troop levels, military spending, and the proportionality of immigration penalties are prudential, and this procedural resolution does not itself authorize unjust killing or direct moral harm.

## Recorded votes

Roll 242: On Ordering the Previous Question. Yea 213 · Nay 207 · Other 10.
Roll 243: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Yea 210 · Nay 207 · Other 14.

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