The deputies and senators who are champions of amendments, which reach R$9.8 billion

Senators Eduardo Braga, of the MDB party in Amazonas, and Augusta Brito, of the Workers' Party in Ceará, are the members of Congress who have made the most use of parliamentary amendments this year. Each has already allocated R$68.5 million to states and municipalities, the annual spending limit in the Senate. In the Chamber of Deputies, the leader is Representative Adail Filho, of the Republicans party in Amazonas, who has reached the R$37 million limit.

Based on data from the Central das Emendas (Amendment Center), a platform for tracking Congressional budgets, the column identified the ten senators and five representatives who have contributed the most to individual amendments in 2025. These amendments already total R$9.8 billion this year.

The survey among senators indicates that in third place, just below Eduardo Braga and Augusta Brito, comes Romário, from the PL of Rio de Janeiro, with R$66 million, followed by Jorge Kajuru , from the PSB of Goiás, with R$65.9 million.

The list of the top ten also includes Jader Barbalho, from the MDB of Pará (R$51.3 million); Weverton Rocha, from the PDT of Maranhão (R$51 million); Carlos Portinho, from the PL of Rio de Janeiro (R$49.7 million); Omar Aziz, from the PSD of Amazonas (R$48.4 million); Marcos do Val , from Podemos of Espírito Santo (R$45.8 million); and Cid Gomes, from the PSB of Ceará (R$45.6 million).

In the Chamber of Deputies, following Adail Filho, the champion of amendments, is Eduardo da Fonte, of the Pernambuco Party (PP), with R$35.9 million. Tiririca, of the São Paulo PL, comes in third with R$33.9 million, closely followed by another São Paulo PL congressman, Capitão Augusto, who committed R$33.8 million. Saullo Vianna, of the Amazonas União Brasil party, is tied with the São Paulo congressman.

Founder of Central das Emendas , Bruno Bondarovsky told the column about the great difficulty of monitoring the application of these amendments from end to end.

"It's difficult for the Federal Audit Court to monitor what happens in the 5,570 municipalities. It's a technical challenge, which will fall to the state audit courts and, in the case of São Paulo and Rio, the municipal audit courts. However, for them, amendments are no different from other accounts. They won't monitor parliamentary amendments differently," said Bondarovsky.