House bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
Congressional Accountability Act of 1995
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 4, 1995
- Committee actionskipped
- Passed HouseJan 5, 1995 · 429–0
- Passed SenateJan 12, 1995 · by unanimous consent
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 13, 1995 — Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1.
- Congress.gov noteThis bill had multiple sponsors.Source: Congress.gov, record updated July 21, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- notes
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/1
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 29, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
176 cosponsors — 141 Republicans, 34 Democrats, 1 independent
35 of 176 cosponsors (20%) are from the other party.
Gary Ackerman (D-NY), A. Allard (R-CO), Bill Archer (R-TX), Dick Armey (R-TX), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Bill Baker (R-CA), Richard Baker (R-LA), Cass Ballenger (R-NC), Bob Barr (R-GA), Bill Barrett (R-NE), Thomas Barrett (D-WI), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Joe Barton (R-TX), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Thomas Bliley (R-VA), Peter Blute (R-MA), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), Henry Bonilla (R-TX), Sonny Bono (R-CA), Ed Bryant (R-TN), John Bryant (D-TX), Jim Bunn (R-OR), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Richard Burr (R-NC), Stephen Buyer (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Dave Camp (R-MI), Charles Canady (R-FL), Ben Cardin (D-MD) and 146 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 29, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.