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Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 › Section 4

Explanatory Statement

Section 4 · Sec. 4 ·

What this chapter is about

A long note was printed with this law. The note says how the money should be spent. This part says the note counts.

1 proposal indexed from this chapter.

The document says “shallWho acts: Committee on Appropriations of the SenateHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says

“The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the Senate section of the Congressional Record on or about November 9, 2025, and submitted by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of divisions B through D of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.”

Making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 4

Section 4 gives legal weight to a document printed outside the Act. Several accounts in divisions B and D fund the projects and amounts specified in the table in the explanatory statement described in section 4, so the tables in that statement carry the detail the bill text leaves out.

What the document actually says

“The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed in the Senate section of the Congressional Record on or about November 9, 2025, and submitted by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, shall have the same effect with respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of divisions B through D of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference.”

Making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2026, and for other purposes, Sec. 4
That sentence, in plain words

A note about this law was printed in the record of the Senate. It counts as much as a note agreed by both houses.

What this is about

The law names big sums but not every small item. The note fills in that detail. It was printed on November 9, 2025.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The one thing the section does: give the explanatory statement the same effect as a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference, for divisions B through D.

What the explanatory statement itself says. It is printed in the Congressional Record and is not indexed here.

A reader who wants the spending detail has to go to the Congressional Record for it. This site records that the statement governs, not what it directs.