Which specific policy riders are attached to the 2025 continuing resolution and who proposed them?

Executive summary — Straight to the point: The documents provided make three competing claims about riders on 2025 continuing resolutions: one set says the early-2025 CR carried major policy riders including disaster relief, a one-year Farm Bill extension, and Medicaid/DSH delays (reported January 13, 2025); another identifies a enacted omnibus/continuing appropriations statute (H.R.1968) that contained specific health and program extensions and was sponsored by Rep. Tom Cole and became law in mid‑March 2025; a later House action is reported as a “clean” CR free of policy riders for a November funding stopgap. These are not mutually exclusive: Congress passed multiple temporary funding measures in 2025, and the precise riders depend on which CR or appropriations vehicle one references ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.

1. Conflicting headlines: Did the 2025 CR carry big policy riders or was it “clean”? The January 13, 2025 account reports a continuing resolution that included over $100 billion in supplemental disaster funding, a one‑year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill, $10 billion for agricultural assistance, and a delay in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payment reductions, while noting Secure Rural Schools was not reauthorized ^[1]. By contrast, a September‑updated explainer flags that it does not include real‑time rider lists and a separate House press note on September 22, 2025 says the House passed a clean CR maintaining FY2025 funding levels through November 21 with limited specific allocations for security and court funding but no broad policy riders ^{[4] [3]}. The difference points to multiple distinct funding measures in 2025, with riders appearing in some vehicles and not in others rather than a single consistent picture across the year ^{[1] [3]}.

2. The enacted Full‑Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act — riders and authorship matter. The legislative text identified as H.R.1968, the Full‑Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, is documented as containing policy riders extending community health centers, special diabetes programs, and Medicare‑dependent hospital programs, while also funding hard appropriations accounts across agriculture, defense, energy, and commerce. That text lists Rep. Tom Cole (R‑OK‑4) as the sponsor and shows the measure became Public Law No: 119‑4 on March 15, 2025, signaling that at least one major 2025 appropriations vehicle contained specific programmatic riders and extensions alongside funding totals ^[2]. Other committee materials emphasize that the bill preserved critical services, provided junior enlisted pay increases, and signaled executive‑branch discretion on some funding priorities ^[5].

3. Timing and semantics: “Continuing resolution” vs. “full‑year appropriations” — why confusion arises. Reporters and policymakers used the term “continuing resolution” for several stopgaps and short‑term measures in 2025; one early stopgap reportedly carried substantive riders (disaster aid, Farm Bill extension), another later House stopgap was described as “clean,” and a separate full‑year appropriations act carried a different package of riders and extensions and was enacted in March ^{[1] [3] [2]}. This temporal and terminological overlap explains apparent contradictions: when asking “which riders are attached to the 2025 CR,” one must specify which CR or which appropriations bill and on what date. The sources show riders varied by vehicle and session timing rather than a single uniform rider package across 2025 ^{[4] [2]}.

4. What the sources agree on and where gaps remain — sponsorship and attribution. The legislative text for H.R.1968 clearly identifies Rep. Tom Cole as sponsor and enumerates several programmatic extensions, so attribution is concrete for that enacted measure ^[2]. The January 13 summary lists a set of riders and describes bipartisan passage but does not attribute each rider to individual sponsors in the record supplied; the September House note frames a different CR as “clean” without listing sponsors for that stopgap ^{[1] [3]}. The result: sponsorship is documented for the enacted full‑year act, but the short summary sources do not consistently trace individual riders to the lawmakers who proposed them, leaving an evidentiary gap for pinpointing proposer names for every rider mentioned in stopgaps ^{[2] [1]}.

5. Bottom line and how to resolve remaining questions with primary records. The materials show multiple 2025 funding actions with differing rider profiles: some short CRs included targeted riders (disaster aid, Farm Bill extension), the March full‑year act codified health and program extensions and names Rep. Tom Cole as sponsor, and a later House stopgap was presented as clean ^{[1] [2] [3]}. To produce a definitive, itemized list of every rider and its proposer for any single CR, consult the official bill texts and sponsor lists on Congress.gov and the enacted public law text for H.R.1968; those primary records will attribute each provision and sponsor unambiguously ^{[2] [5]}. The inconsistent summaries across the sources underscore that precision requires naming the exact bill and date before compiling a complete riders-and-proponents inventory ^{[4] [2]}.