House bill · 105th Congress · Did not become law
Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1997
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 1997
- Committee actionMar 12, 1997
- Passed HouseApr 9, 1997 · by voice vote
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Apr 10, 1997 — Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 240.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 105-40 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on March 21, 1997.Source: Congress.gov, reported March 21, 1997 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/105/HRPT/40
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 240, 105th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/105/hr/240
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 28, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
93202f8aaa100735f524ed9629464883ac4fb03566d8e2e838094131b5015db0
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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
26 cosponsors — 17 Republicans, 9 Democrats
9 of 26 cosponsors (35%) are from the other party.
Robert Borski (D-PA), Stephen Buyer (R-IN), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Dave Camp (R-MI), Charles Canady (R-FL), William Coyne (D-PA), Thomas Davis (R-VA), Phil English (R-PA), John Ensign (R-NV), Lane Evans (D-IL), Terry Everett (R-AL), Vic Fazio (D-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Tim Holden (D-PA), Sue Kelly (R-NY), Scott Klug (R-WI), William Lipinski (D-IL), William Luther (D-MN), Donald Manzullo (R-IL), Nick Rahall (D-WV), Jim Ramstad (R-MN), Steven Schiff (R-NM), Gerald Solomon (R-NY), Bob Stump (R-AZ).
More from the sponsor
Other 105th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. John Mica.
- H.R. 2675 (105th) Federal Employees Life Insurance Improvement Act
- H.R. 3249 (105th) Federal Retirement Coverage Corrections Act
- H.Res. 108 (105th) Designating majority membership on certain standing committees of the House.
- H.Con.Res. 193 (105th) Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Attorney General should remove Hani El-Sayegh from the United States to the Kingdom of Saudi…
- H.R. 20 (105th) Capitol Visitor Center Authorization Act of 1997
- H.R. 1631 (105th) Military Health Care Choice 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.