House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Where it went
- IntroducedMar 19, 1997
- Committee actionOct 9, 1997
- Passed HouseNov 9, 1997 · 393–21
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Nov 13, 1997 — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1129.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 1129, Microcredit for Self-Reliance Act of 1997” on October 15, 1997. CBO’s description reads “Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on International Relations on October 9, 1997”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, October 15, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/10467
- CBO publication date
- October 15, 1997
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1129, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/1129
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 7, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 1129, 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
100 cosponsors — 35 Republicans, 64 Democrats, 1 independent
65 of 100 cosponsors (65%) are from the other party.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), James Barcia (D-MI), Thomas Barrett (D-WI), Ken Bentsen (D-TX), Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), David Bonior (D-MI), Corrine Brown (D-FL), George Brown (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Walter Capps (D-CA), Julia Carson (D-IN), Michael Castle (R-DE), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Eva Clayton (D-NC), Bob Clement (D-TN), William Coyne (D-PA), Elijah Cummings (D-MD), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Ronald Dellums (D-CA), Norman Dicks (D-WA), Phil English (R-PA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Sam Farr (D-CA), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Thomas Foglietta (D-PA) and 70 more.
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Amo Houghton.
- H.R. 3156 (105th) To present a congressional gold medal to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.
- H.Con.Res. 99 (105th) Expressing concern over recent events in the Republic of Sierra Leone in the wake of the recent military coup d'etat of that country's…
- H.Con.Res. 18 (105th) Congratulating the people of the Republic of Nicaragua on the success of their democratic elections held on October 20, 1996.
- H.Con.Res. 326 (105th) Permitting the use of the rotunda of the Capitol on September 23, 1998, for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to Nelson…
- H.R. 3125 (105th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the work opportunity credit for 3 years.
- H.R. 195 (105th) American Farm and Ranch Protection 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.