House joint resolution · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to tax limitations.
Sponsor: Rep. Joe Barton R-TXWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 11, 1997
- Committee actionApr 8, 1997
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 15, 1997 — Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.J.Res. 62.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-50 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Judiciary Committee on April 10, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported April 10, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/50
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.J.Res. 62, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hjres/62
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
abfc06a8b75b3ca96a1b6aca77e540bbfe9ff9d989779b3a75360f90adaacf7f
A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.J.Res. 62, last updated April 7, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 28, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.
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
164 cosponsors — 158 Republicans, 6 Democrats
8 of 164 cosponsors (5%) are from the other party.
Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Dick Armey (R-TX), Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Richard Baker (R-LA), Cass Ballenger (R-NC), Bob Barr (R-GA), Bill Barrett (R-NE), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Charles Bass (R-NH), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Michael Bilirakis (R-FL), Thomas Bliley (R-VA), Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Boehner (R-OH), Henry Bonilla (R-TX), Sonny Bono (R-CA), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ed Bryant (R-TN), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Richard Burr (R-NC), Dan Burton (R-IN), H. Callahan (R-AL), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Dave Camp (R-MI), Chris Cannon (R-UT), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID), Jon Christensen (R-NE), Howard Coble (R-NC) and 134 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton.
- H.R. 629 (105th) Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act
- H.R. 1710 (105th) Medical Device Regulatory Modernization Act of 1997
- H.J.Res. 111 (105th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to tax limitations.
- H.J.Res. 52 (105th) Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to tax limitations and the balanced budget.
- H.R. 1711 (105th) Small Business Remediation Act of 1997
- H.R. 2003 (105th) Budget Enforcement Act of 1997
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.